linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Split out CPUXGPT timers

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Message-ID: <c17f1dbb-ad81-b64e-48c9-d89d3e170b38@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 15:41:05 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, matthias.bgg@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...labora.com,
        Walter.Chang@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Split out CPUXGPT
 timers

On 09/03/2023 11:39, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> On MediaTek platforms, CPUXGPT is the source for the AArch64 System
> Timer, read through CNTVCT_EL0.
> 
> The handling for starting this timer ASAP was introduced in commit
> 327e93cf9a59 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Implement CPUXGPT timers")
> which description also contains an important full explanation of the
> reasons why this driver is necessary and cannot be a module.
> 
> In preparation for an eventual conversion of timer-mediatek to a
> platform_driver that would be possibly built as a module, split out
> the CPUXGPT timers driver to a new timer-mediatek-cpux.c driver.
> 
> This commit brings no functional changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks

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