RE: hrtimer or GP timer support with OMAP4

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On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Ran Shalit <ranshalit@xxxxxxxxx> [161219 05:48]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm not sure if hrtimer in omap is supported.
> > I am using omap4, with kernel 3.4.x,
> >
> > But I can't find in configuration support for MPU timer, i.e. it's
> > seem that my architecture (omap4) does not support it(?):
> >
> > Symbol: OMAP_MPU_TIMER [=n] │
> > │ Type : boolean │
> > │ Prompt: Use mpu timer │
> > │ Defined at arch/arm/plat-omap/Kconfig:189 │
> > │ Depends on: ARCH_OMAP [=y] && ARCH_OMAP1 [=n] │
> > │ Location: │
> > │ -> System Type │
> > │ -> TI OMAP Common Features │
> > │ Selected by: ARCH_OMAP730 [=n] && ARCH_OMAP1 [=n] || ARCH_OMAP15XX [= │
> >
> > Does it mean that I don't have high resolution timer ?
>
> No, that's for omap1. For omap4 there are typically two gptimer
> instances that can be configured with two input sources, typically
> using the 32KiHz clock as that's always on and works for PM also.
> See mach-omap2/timer.c
>
> Then there are the ARM local timers on omap4 that cpuidle_coupled
> uses during runtime. See drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c.
>
> Then there's the Linux hrtimer code that we're using.
>

Hi Tony,

Just to be sure I understand,
when we  use hrtimer, is it actually using GP timer (the 32kiHZ timer) ?

Thank you!
Ran

> Regards,
>
> Tony
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