>From: Noam Camus >Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 5:33 PM
>>You're letting Linux details define the binding. Are these blocks different >>(the block itself, not connections to >the block like interrupts)? >>If you need a particular timer instance to be used, then describe whatever is >>the difference in the h/w. For >example, the clockevent timer has to be the >>timer with an interrupt. >Yes, blocks are different. >The difference is that only second timer instance are actually producing timer >interrupt served by Linux for the clockevent framework. >Please note that the numbering used here for timer (i.e. 0 or 1) are derived >from HW blocks and are not any Linux detail I used for binding definition (It >is a note at this patch set cover letter). The timers actually are: first instance (timer 0) for clockevents and second instance (timer 1) for clocksource. Sorry for the confusion. Noam
