[RFC/example] powerpc: add the mpic global timer support

[Régis Odeyé]

Thanks for this.
Regards

Kumar Gala wrote:
> From: Dave Liu <daveliu at freescale.com>
>
> The mpic timer works as wake up source for power management,
> the max timer period is 336 seconds when the CCB freq is 400MHz.
>
> to setup timer, type
> echo 30 > /sys/devices/ffe00000.soc8572/ffe41100.timer/timeout
>
> before the system enter to sleep mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu at freescale.com>
> ---
>
> Posting this both as a example of timer code for Regis as well as code for
> partial review.. need to clean up a number of things.
>
> - k
>   


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