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Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller

From Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller
Date 2015-12-03 18:30 +0100
Message-ID <qBFRE-879-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <qASQV-1Dr-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <qASQV-1Dr-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 01/12/15 13:02, Simon Arlott wrote:
> Add the BCM6345/BCM6318 timer as an interrupt controller so that it can be
> used by the watchdog to warn that its timer will expire soon.
> 
> Support for clocksource/clockevents is not implemented as the timer
> interrupt is not per CPU (except on the BCM6318) and the MIPS clock is
> better. This could be added later if required without changing the device
> tree binding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                |   5 +
>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c | 386 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 392 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c

I'm not sure how useful it is to have a bunch of timers that are just
turned off, but from an irqchip PoV:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

	M.
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[PATCH 01/11] clocksource: Add brcm,bcm6345-timer/brcm,bcm6318-timer  device tree binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-12-03 18:30 +0100
  [PATCH 03/11] watchdog: Add brcm,bcm6345-wdt device tree binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 04/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Handle hardware interrupt and  remove software timer Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 06/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Obtain watchdog clock HZ from  "periph" clk Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 05/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Use WATCHDOG_CORE Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 10/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Use bcm63xx_timer interrupt  directly Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:20 +0100
  [PATCH 09/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Remove dependency on  mach-bcm63xx functions/defines Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:20 +0100
  [PATCH 11/11] watchdog: bcm63xx_wdt: Use brcm,bcm6345-wdt device tree  binding Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> - 2015-12-01 14:20 +0100

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