Hi Will, On 26 May 2015 at 08:28, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:03:13AM +0100, fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Parse SBSA Generic Watchdog Structure in GTDT table of ACPI, >> and create a platform device with that information. >> This platform device can be used by the ARM SBSA Generic >> Watchdog driver. >> >> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx> >> Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 145 insertions(+) > > Why does this all need to be under arch/arm64? The GTDT really isn't > architecture-specific, so I'd *much* rather it was parsed in the driver code > itself, like we already do for the architected timer. The GIC is an > exception because it's in the MADT, which we need to parse in the arch code > to configure SMP properly. I'm not really against refactoring the code. But the GTDT looks quite specific to ARM.. ---8<---- 5.2.24 Generic Timer Description Table (GTDT) This section describes the format of the Generic Timer Description Table (GTDT), which provides OSPM with information about a system’s Generic Timers configuration. The Generic Timer (GT) is a standard timer interface implemented on ARM processor-based systems. The GT hardware specification can be found at Links to ACPI-Related Documents (http://uefi.org/acpi) under the heading ARM Architecture. The GTDT provides OSPM with information about a system's GT interrupt configurations, for both per-processor timers, and platform (memory-mapped) timers. The GT specification defines the following per-processor timers: • Secure privilege level 1 (EL1) timer, • Non-Secure EL1 timer, • Non-Secure privilege level 2 (EL2) timer, • Virtual timer, and the following Platform (memory-mapped) timers. • GT Block • Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) Generic Watchdog ---8<---- Thanks, Ashwin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
