linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 11/11] MIPS: Add multiplatform BMIPS target

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Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:29:40 -0800
From:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...gle.com>
To:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Cc:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, jfraser@...adcom.com,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	computersforpeace@...il.com,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 11/11] MIPS: Add multiplatform BMIPS target

> 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?
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