linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/3] dt-bindings: Correct RISC-V's timebase-frequency

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Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:26:52 -0700
From:   Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     "palmer@...ive.com" <palmer@...ive.com>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "robh@...nel.org" <robh@...nel.org>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        "marc.zyngier@....com" <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "anup@...infault.org" <anup@...infault.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] dt-bindings: Correct RISC-V's timebase-frequency

On 9/17/18 7:20 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:54:54PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
>> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
>>
>> Someone must have read the device tree specification incorrectly,
>> because we were putting timebase-frequency in the wrong place.  This
>> corrects the issue, moving it from
> 
> Last time this was brought up we actually had realy life DTs with
> the timebase-frequency under cpus and not the invidual cpu node.
> 

Unfortunately, it still is. I hope SiFive can publish the updated 
firmware with correct DT entries. I can patch BBL to fix these DT issues 
until the firmware update if that's accepted.


> I think we need to just document both possibilities and live with
> them.
> 
Yup. That was the intention. I will update the document/commit text to 
reflect that.


Regards,
Atish