On 20/02/2017 at 17:50:54 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The question being what does that do and whether it could be done in the
> > driver instead.
> 
> It's not specific to the Armada 8040, the same problem exists with
> Armada 38x, so holding this up for that reason does not make sense.
> 

I agree, I will not delay the patch for that.

> I suspect that the errata is "RTC is not reset at power up" for the RTC
> power domain.
> 
> I don't know where the value of 0x2000 comes from for the correction
> value, all I know is that's the value uboot uses with "date reset".
> We probably do _not_ want the driver writing that each time the
> kernel boots, since that's a tuning parameter.
> 

It is probably a calibration offset. It may be worth exposing to
userspace but without more information, I doubt we can make something
useful out of it.



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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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