Re: Recommendation for cherry-pick between 3.18 and 4.4: c61f30a255550

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Kuninori Morimoto
<kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> commit c61f30a255550bbfc6b83c1ca720661489cac4c0
>> Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 18 11:51:36 2015 +0100
>>
>>     ARM: dts: armadillo800eva Correct extal1 frequency to 24 MHz
>>
>> This change corrects an long-standing miss-match between the clock speed
>> specified in the kernel (DTS) and what is actually present in the hardware.
>> My understanding is that this can result in unexpected behaviour. I believe
>> Geert can provide more details if needed.

It will cause dividers to be set up incorrectly in drivers, leading to e.g.
slightly off serial baud rates (measured).

> In my (un trusted) memory, the reason why board has 24MHz instead of 25MHz is that
> HW people had noticed that 25MHz clock will be conflict/resonance with HDMI.
> Thus they decided to use 24MHz instead. But some schematic is still indicating 25MHz.

Ah, you have schematics ;-)

That's plausible. All documentation I have says 24 MHz.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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