Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] Fix Allwinner D1 boot regression

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, Aug 15 2024 at 09:41, Samuel Holland wrote:
> On 2024-08-15 9:16 AM, Anup Patel wrote:
>> Almost all RISC-V platforms (except this one) have SBI Timer always
>> available and Linux uses a better timer or Sstc extension whenever
>> it is available.
>
> So this is the immediate solution: add the CLINT to the firmware
> devicetree so that the SBI time extension works, and Linux will boot
> without any code changes, albeit with a higher-overhead clockevent
> device.

That does not matter for the boot process when the sun4i timer becomes
available afterwards. But how can this be retrofitted along with the
kernel update?

Thanks,

        tglx