[PATCH] arm64: dts: allwinner: enable h616 timer support
From: Michal Piekos
Date: Sun Mar 29 2026 - 07:44:43 EST
Add support for timer by reusing existing sun4i timer driver.
H616 timer is compatible with earlier sunxi timer variants and provides
both clocksource and clockevent functionality. It runs from 24 MHz
oscillator. It can serve as broadcast clockevent for wake up from idle
states.
Tested on Orange Pi Zero 3:
- timer is registered as clocksource:
- switching clocksource at runtime works
- timer operates as a broadcast clockevent device
- no regression observed compared to arch_sys_counter
Signed-off-by: Michal Piekos <michal.piekos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Test results:
Clocksource switching:
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
arch_sys_counter timer
echo timer > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
[ 5031.105997] clocksource: Switched to clocksource timer
Clockevent configuration:
cat /proc/timer_list
...
Tick Device: mode: 1
Broadcast device
Clock Event Device: sun4i_tick
max_delta_ns: 178956969070
min_delta_ns: 1000
mult: 51539608
shift: 31
mode: 1
next_event: 9223372036854775807 nsecs
set_next_event: sun4i_clkevt_next_event
shutdown: sun4i_clkevt_shutdown
periodic: sun4i_clkevt_set_periodic
oneshot: sun4i_clkevt_set_oneshot
resume: sun4i_clkevt_shutdown
event_handler: tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast
...
Cyclictest measurements:
Dominated by system scheduler latency and do not reflect clocksource
precision.
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi
index 8d1110c14bad..bf054869e78b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616.dtsi
@@ -228,6 +228,15 @@ cpu_speed_grade: cpu-speed-grade@0 {
};
};
+ timer0: timer@3009000 {
+ compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h616-timer",
+ "allwinner,sun8i-a23-timer";
+ reg = <0x03009000 0xa0>;
+ interrupts = <GIC_SPI 48 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
+ <GIC_SPI 49 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ clocks = <&osc24M>;
+ };
+
watchdog: watchdog@30090a0 {
compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h616-wdt",
"allwinner,sun6i-a31-wdt";
---
base-commit: be762d8b6dd7efacb61937d20f8475db8f207655
change-id: 20260328-h616-timer-046e6ac3549e
Best regards,
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Michal Piekos <michal.piekos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>