[PATCH 1/7] [POWERPC] sysdev: implement FSL GTM support

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:04:55AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
>> GTM stands for General-purpose Timers Module and able to generate
>> timer{1,2,3,4} interrupts. These timers are used by the drivers that
>> need time precise interrupts (like for USB transactions scheduling for
>> the Freescale USB Host controller as found in some QE and CPM chips),
>> or these timers could be used as wakeup events from the CPU deep-sleep
>> mode.
>>
>> Things unimplemented:
>> 1. Cascaded (32 bit) timers (1-2, 3-4).
>>   This is straightforward to implement when needed, two timers should
>>   be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate.
>> 2. Super-cascaded (64 bit) timers (1-2-3-4).
>>   This is also straightforward to implement when needed, all timers
>>   should be marked as "requested" and configured as appropriate.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt |   37 +++-
>> arch/powerpc/Kconfig                         |    5 +
>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile                 |    1 +
>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_gtm.c                |  424 +++++++++++++++++ 
>> +++++++++
>> include/asm-powerpc/fsl_gtm.h                |   47 +++
>> 5 files changed, 513 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_gtm.c
>> create mode 100644 include/asm-powerpc/fsl_gtm.h
>
>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index 3934e26..e5d3366 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ config FSL_LBC
>> 	help
>> 	  Freescale Localbus support
>>
>> +config FSL_GTM
>> +	bool
>
> I'd prefer something like:
>
> depends on PPC_83xx || QUICC_ENGINE || CPM2

Btw, this is silent config, selected by the board's Kconfig
(same as QE block, for example). So "depends on" here is just
no-op, since select disregards dependencies. Still want this?

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
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