> diff --git a/arch/mips/bmips/setup.c b/arch/mips/bmips/setup.c > +void __init plat_time_init(void) > +{ > + struct device_node *np; > + u32 freq; > + > + np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "cpus"); > + if (!np) > + panic("missing 'cpus' DT node"); > + if (of_property_read_u32(np, "mips-hpt-frequency", &freq) < 0) > + panic("missing 'mips-hpt-frequency' property"); > + of_node_put(np); > + > + mips_hpt_frequency = freq; > +} Could you use common clock framework for this? Isn't the HPT just a fixed factor of the CPU clock? I'm planning on doing something very similar for ImgTec MIPS SoCs, so perhaps this could go in a common place, like the r4k clocksource driver?