Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:18:36AM +0100, Mylène Josserand wrote: > The ARM architected timers use an offset between their physical and > virtual counters. That offset should be configured by the bootloader > in CNTVOFF. > > However, the A83t bootloader fails to do so, and we end up with an > undefined offset (which in our case is random), meaning that each CPU > will have a different time, which isn't working very well. > > Fix that by setting the arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured that will > make Linux use the physical timers instead of the virtual ones. One > possible side effect would be that the virtualization features would > be disabled. However, due to the way the GIC has been integrated in > the system, it is already unusable so we're effectively not losing any > feature. > > Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josser...@bootlin.com>
One small nitpick on this one (and the previous one), arm in the subject prefix should be uppercase. Thanks! Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://bootlin.com
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