This timer does not support oneshot mode and as such the system remains in periodic mode and won't support high res timers. This patch adds a note about this in Kconfig and lets it depend on !highres so users which want to use high timers don' stuck with this timer. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/loongson/Kconfig | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/loongson/Kconfig b/arch/mips/loongson/Kconfig index 7397be2..0ed955e 100644 --- a/arch/mips/loongson/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/loongson/Kconfig @@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ config CS5536 config CS5536_MFGPT bool "CS5536 MFGPT Timer" - depends on CS5536 + depends on CS5536 && !HIGH_RES_TIMERS select MIPS_EXTERNAL_TIMER help - This option enables the mfgpt0 timer of AMD CS5536. + This option enables the mfgpt0 timer of AMD CS5536. With this timer + switched on you can not use high resolution timers. If you want to enable the Loongson2 CPUFreq Driver, Please enable this option at first, otherwise, You will get wrong system time. -- 2.0.0.rc0
