Re: [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver

2016-10-21 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:52:30PM +0300, Noam Camus wrote: > From: Noam Camus > > Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. > This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. > When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be > scheduled to receive timer i

RE: [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver

2016-10-18 Thread Noam Camus
>From: Noam Camus >Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 5:33 PM >>You're letting Linux details define the binding. Are these blocks different >>(the block itself, not connections to >the block like interrupts)? >>If you need a particular timer instance to be used, then describe whatever is >>the

RE: [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver

2016-10-18 Thread Noam Camus
> From: Rob Herring [mailto:r...@kernel.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:57 PM >> >> Driver can be used from device tree by: >> compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer0" <-- for clocksource compatible = >> "ezchip,nps400-timer1" <-- for clockevent >You're letting Linux details define the bin

Re: [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver

2016-10-18 Thread Rob Herring
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:52:30PM +0300, Noam Camus wrote: > From: Noam Camus > > Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. > This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. > When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be > scheduled to receive timer i