ARM clock API to PowerPC

Li Yang-R58472 LeoLi at freescale.com
Thu Aug 13 18:59:54 EST 2009


>Now, I know there is at least one person on earth 
>contemplating sharing some drivers between PPC and ARM. I 
>won't tell much more at this stage, but it makes sense in the 
>grand scheme of things to see SoC vendors put similar IO cores 
>into either PPC or ARM and providing that clock API is a good 
>way to also allow these drivers to work since the drivers in 
>questions make use of it.

Freescale USB UDC driver is another example that shared between PowerPC
and ARM(i.mx).  Currently, the imx part of the driver uses clk API, but
PowerPC part uses static initialization.  It will be better if we can
unify the clk setting part of the driver.

- Leo


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