Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Move persistent clock registration code from ARM to kernel

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 11:34:15AM -0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>> ARM timekeeping functionality allows to register persistent/boot clock dynamically.
>> This code is arch-independent and can be useful on other plaforms as well.
>>
>> As a byproduct of this change, tegra20_timer becomes ARM64 compatible.
>>
>> Tested: backported the change to chromeos-3.14 kernel ran on tegra 64bit
>> board, made sure high-resolution clock works.
>
> Using this on an upstream kernel doesn't work, though, because 64-bit
> ARM doesn't implement struct delay_timer which the driver needs since
> v3.17.
>
> But I suppose the delay timer infrastructure could be moved into the
> core similar to the persistent and boot clock as this patch does.

Thanks. It makes sense, I will send it in a separate patch, once this
one will be reviewed. On our kernel I haven't seen this issue as we
still use 3.14.

In fact none of arch/arm/lib/delay.c code seems ARM32 related.
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