Dear "Dennis Lan (dlan)", In message <CAF1ZMEcVWc3DNdcb7gQ60D-8Nx-MHOpkLs=ey0ph2w_lgco...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > > What would be the use of such timer support? Is there any code that > > actually needs it, and why does it need anything beyond the existing > > timer support we have?
> I think vipin here is trying to provide a generic timer support for ARMV7 > architecture, > which contains private(local) and global timer. It's general a good thing > which means we can maximize the code usage.. Sorry, I don't get it. Why would we need separate global and local timers? And what exactly is "local" here - local to what? We don't need anything like that on other architectures - so why here? "general a good thing" sounds like "nice to have", and this is usually something we don't really need, especially not in a boot loader. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de One does not thank logic. -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot