Re: [PATCH 4/7] dt-bindings: chosen: Add clocksource and clockevent selection

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 04:47:13PM +0300, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
> From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some timer drivers may behave either as clocksource or clockevent
> or both. Until now, in case of platforms with multiple hardware
> resources of the same type, the drivers were chosing the first
> registered hardware resource as clocksource/clockevent and the
> next one as clockevent/clocksource. Other were using different
> compatibles (one for each functionality, although its about the
> same hardware). Add DT bindings to be able to choose the
> functionality of a timer.
>

Is the piece of hardware not capable of serving as both clocksource
and clockevent or is it just the platform choice ?

--
Regards,
Sudeep

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