From: rjw@rjwysocki.net (Rafael J. Wysocki)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:37:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5351858.jEb0qfTvrF@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADyBb7vmS=oJ9EOzs-v-O4_h5Kd_PCMQytjqEHdRNQkqz4WHcQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday, June 30, 2016 09:29:59 AM Fu Wei wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On 30 June 2016 at 05:32, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, <fu.wei@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
> >>
> >> This patchset:
> >> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer
> >> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file
> >> 2. Add a new enum for spi type.
> >> 3. Improve printk relevant code
> >>
> >> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c
> >> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
> >> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
> >> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
> >> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
> >>
> >> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer
> >>
> >> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer
> >
> > GTDT is ARM-specific AFAICS.
>
> yes, you are right, it is.
>
> >
> > If so, why do we need that code to reside in drivers/acpi/ ?
>
> Although the GTDT is just for ARM64, but this driver is parsing one
> of ACPI table,
> I think that could be treated as ACPI driver. Do I miss something? :-)
Yes, you are. Nobody except for ARM64 will ever need it.
Thanks,
Rafael
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2016-06-29 18:15 [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move enums and defines to header file fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add a new enum for spi type fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Improve printk relevant code fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-30 2:54 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-07-07 16:12 ` Fu Wei
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] acpi: Add some basic struct and functions in GTDT driver fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 21:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-30 1:17 ` Fu Wei
2016-06-30 1:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-30 1:32 ` Fu Wei
2016-06-30 4:13 ` Timur Tabi
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] acpi: Add arch_timer support in GTDT table parse driver fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] acpi: Add GTDT driver to kernel build system fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Simplify ACPI support code fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] acpi: Add memory-mapped timer support in GTDT driver fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add GTDT support for memory-mapped timer fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 18:15 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] acpi: Add SBSA Generic Watchdog support in GTDT driver fu.wei at linaro.org
2016-06-29 21:32 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-30 1:29 ` Fu Wei
2016-06-30 1:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2016-06-30 2:10 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-06-30 13:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-30 13:48 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-07-01 15:23 ` Will Deacon
2016-07-01 21:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-04 12:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-05 14:18 ` Graeme Gregory
2016-07-06 0:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-07 11:12 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-07-07 12:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-07 13:40 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-07-07 13:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-07 15:21 ` Fu Wei
2016-07-08 13:22 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-07-08 13:50 ` Sudeep Holla
2016-07-09 3:44 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-07-10 1:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-09 3:00 ` Hanjun Guo
2016-07-01 14:00 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-07-01 21:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-04 13:43 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-07-04 14:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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