Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller

[Marc Zyngier]

On 01/12/15 13:02, Simon Arlott wrote:
> Add the BCM6345/BCM6318 timer as an interrupt controller so that it can be
> used by the watchdog to warn that its timer will expire soon.
> 
> Support for clocksource/clockevents is not implemented as the timer
> interrupt is not per CPU (except on the BCM6318) and the MIPS clock is
> better. This could be added later if required without changing the device
> tree binding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                |   5 +
>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c | 386 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 392 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c

I'm not sure how useful it is to have a bunch of timers that are just
turned off, but from an irqchip PoV:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>

	M.
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