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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Cc: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	"Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/timer: Add value matching support to aspeed_timer
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 15:01:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_Pseb+W6q-TjyZxsf+OuET=FpzNwck+72QpnY0iqxS6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464325706-11221-1-git-send-email-andrew@aj.id.au>

On 27 May 2016 at 06:08, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:
> Value matching allows Linux to boot with CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y on the
> palmetto-bmc machine. Two match registers are provided for each timer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
> ---
>
> The change pulls out ptimer in favour of the regular timer infrastructure. As a
> consequence it implements the conversions between ticks and time which feels a
> little tedious. Any comments there would be appreciated.

So what would you need from ptimer to be able to implement value
matching with it; or is ptimer just too far away from what this
timer device needs to make that worthwhile ?

thanks
-- PMM

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-27  5:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/timer: Add value matching support to aspeed_timer Andrew Jeffery
2016-06-05 16:20 ` Joel Stanley
2016-06-05 17:22   ` Cédric Le Goater
2016-06-06 14:01 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2016-06-08  5:31   ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-06-09 18:15 ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-10  0:59   ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-06-10 10:42     ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-14  5:16       ` Andrew Jeffery

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