Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm: dts: sun8i: a83t: Fix undefined offset with virtual timer

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:18:36AM +0100, Mylène Josserand wrote:
> The ARM architected timers use an offset between their physical and
> virtual counters. That offset should be configured by the bootloader
> in CNTVOFF.
> 
> However, the A83t bootloader fails to do so, and we end up with an
> undefined offset (which in our case is random), meaning that each CPU
> will have a different time, which isn't working very well.
> 
> Fix that by setting the arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured that will
> make Linux use the physical timers instead of the virtual ones. One
> possible side effect would be that the virtualization features would
> be disabled. However, due to the way the GIC has been integrated in
> the system, it is already unusable so we're effectively not losing any
> feature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand@xxxxxxxxxxx>

One small nitpick on this one (and the previous one), arm in the
subject prefix should be uppercase.

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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