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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] arm64: ARMv8 RTSM model (SoC) support
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:59:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201212181759.45394.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121218162944.GA594@arm.com>

On Tuesday 18 December 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> After some more thinking, none of these would work for arch/arm since
> vexpress_clk_of_init() is called very early via the time_init() ...
> v2m_dt_timer_init(). On arm64 we rely on the architected timers to be
> always present but this assumption is not valid on arm where clocks
> would need to be initialised early.
> 
> While I'd really like to get rid of the SoC code in arch/arm64, the best
> place I see for the vexpress_clk_of_init() call is still the arch code
> (unless we add #ifdefs in the clk-vexpress.c code).

I think I'd prefer the #ifdef in this case. Ideally, we would get rid
of most of the early init functions in ARM as well, but that is
a different battle for now. Getting the arch/arm64 to look nice
IMHO is more important in this case, and we can fix the 32 bit
version later.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-18 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-07 21:06 [PATCH 0/7] arm64: Initial SoC support (ARMv8 RTSM model) Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] arm: Move sp810.h to include/linux/amba/ Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/7] arm64: Add dtbs target for building all the enabled dtb files Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:47   ` Rob Herring
2012-12-10 18:04     ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-11  2:30       ` Rob Herring
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: SoC infrastructure preparation Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/7] arm64: Populate the platform devices Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm64: ARMv8 RTSM model (SoC) support Catalin Marinas
2012-12-11 15:41   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-11 16:39     ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-11 17:21       ` Pawel Moll
2012-12-11 17:45         ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-18 16:29       ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-18 17:59         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-12-19 15:28           ` Pawel Moll
2012-12-19 15:52             ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 6/7] arm64: Add dts files for the ARMv8 RTSM model Catalin Marinas
2012-12-07 21:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] arm64: Add simple earlyprintk support Catalin Marinas

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