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Message-ID: <101f3b88-7151-af5c-3bd4-feb13763228b@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:17:15 +0100
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To: Alex Bee <knaerzche@...il.com>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>
Cc: Johan Jonker <jbx6244@...il.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: dts: rockchip: Disable non-required timers
for RK3128
On 2023-08-29 21:37, Alex Bee wrote:
> The Rockchip timer linux driver can handle a maximum of 2 timers and will
> get confused if more of them exist.
Wouldn't it be better to fix that? It looks trivial to do, and frankly
it's a behaviour that doesn't make sense anyway. Of course a system can
have more hardware available than Linux wants to use; that's not an
error, it's just Linux's choice to not use it! See commit a98399cbc1e0
("clocksource/drivers/sp804: Avoid error on multiple instances") for
example.
DTs shouldn't be treated like Linux board files, so curating them around
Linux-specific driver behaviour is inappropriate; FreeBSD or U-Boot or
whatever are perfectly entitled to make use of 5 timers at once if they can.
Thanks,
Robin.
> RK3128 only needs timer0, timer1 and timer5. The latter is the source
> for the arm-timer and it's clock is prevented from being disabled in the
> clock driver so it can get disabled in the device tree, too.
>
> Fixes: a0201bff6259 ("ARM: dts: rockchip: add rk3128 soc dtsi")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bee <knaerzche@...il.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3128.dtsi | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3128.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3128.dtsi
> index 88a4b0d6d928..f3f0788195d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3128.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3128.dtsi
> @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ timer2: timer@...44040 {
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 59 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&cru PCLK_TIMER>, <&cru SCLK_TIMER2>;
> clock-names = "pclk", "timer";
> + status = "disabled";
> };
>
> timer3: timer@...44060 {
> @@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ timer3: timer@...44060 {
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 60 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&cru PCLK_TIMER>, <&cru SCLK_TIMER3>;
> clock-names = "pclk", "timer";
> + status = "disabled";
> };
>
> timer4: timer@...44080 {
> @@ -268,6 +270,7 @@ timer4: timer@...44080 {
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 61 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&cru PCLK_TIMER>, <&cru SCLK_TIMER4>;
> clock-names = "pclk", "timer";
> + status = "disabled";
> };
>
> timer5: timer@...440a0 {
> @@ -276,6 +279,7 @@ timer5: timer@...440a0 {
> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 62 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> clocks = <&cru PCLK_TIMER>, <&cru SCLK_TIMER5>;
> clock-names = "pclk", "timer";
> + status = "disabled";
> };
>
> watchdog: watchdog@...4c000 {
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