Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support.

From	Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support.
Date	2015-12-25 01:10 +0100
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Alexander Aring wrote:
>> Later while booting the kernel hangs forever, the solution on my side
>> was to enable:
>> 
>> CONFIG_HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
>> 
>> I think this doesn't use the BCM2835 timer anymore and some cortex-a7
>> related "generic timer", or?
>
> Right, but I don't see how that relates to the irqchip. Is the BCM2835 timer
> connected to a secondary irqchip, while the arch timer connects to the primary GIC?

The 2835 timer is a "peripheral", and connects to the second level
irqchip, while the arm arch timer can give us per-cpu interrupts in the
first level controller.

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[PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH v2 8/8] ARM: bcm2835: Add Kconfig support for bcm2836 Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] ARM: bcm2835: Add Kconfig support for bcm2836 Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-26 23:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 5/8] ARM: bcm2835: Move the CPU/peripheral include out of common RPi DT. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/8] irq: bcm2836: Fix initialization of the LOCAL_IRQ_CNT*IRQ timers Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/8] dt-bindings: Add root properties for Raspberry Pi 2 Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] dt-bindings: Add root properties for Raspberry Pi  2 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-12-19 05:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/8] irq: bcm2836: Add SMP support for the 2836 Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] irq: bcm2836: Add SMP support for the 2836 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> - 2015-12-17 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 6/8] ARM: bcm2835: Add devicetree for bcm2836 and Raspberry Pi 2 B Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] ARM: bcm2835: Add devicetree for bcm2836 and  Raspberry Pi 2 B Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 11:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 7/8] ARM: bcm2835: Add a compat string for bcm2836 machine probe Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-17 01:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-17 01:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> - 2015-12-17 10:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-17 11:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 12:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 23:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-22 00:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 15:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-22 20:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org> - 2015-12-26 22:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 00:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 15:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 22:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Raspberry Pi 2 support. Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2015-12-25 01:10 +0100

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