Re: [PATCH v8 00/42] ARM: davinci: convert to common clock frameworkâ

[David Lechner]

On 03/19/2018 08:17 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-03-16 3:52 GMT+01:00 David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > This series converts mach-davinci to use the common clock framework.
> >
> > The series works like this, the first 19 patches create new clock drivers
> > using the common clock framework. There are basically 3 groups of clocks -
> > PLL, PSC and CFGCHIP (syscon). There are six different SoCs that each have
> > unique init data, which is the reason for so many patches.
> >
> > Then, starting with "ARM: davinci: pass clock as parameter to
> > davinci_timer_init()", we get the mach code ready for the switch by adding the
> > code needed for the new clock drivers and adding #ifndef CONFIG_COMMON_CLK
> > around the legacy clocks so that we can switch easily between the old and the
> > new.
> >
> > "ARM: davinci: switch to common clock framework" actually flips the switch
> > to start using the new clock drivers. Then the next 8 patches remove all
> > of the old clock code.
> >
> > The final three patches add device tree clock support to the one SoC that
> > supports it.
> >
> > This series has been tested on LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 (device tree) and TI
> > OMAP-L138 LCDK (both device tree and legacy board file).
>
> Hi David,
>
> thanks, with the u-boot fix everything seems to work fine. I tested
> da850-lcdk and da850-evm boards in DT and board file modes.
>
> I'll be working with this series in the following days and will do
> some thorough testing and rebase my aemif series on top of it. I'll
> also use the recently merged reset support for board files to get rid
> of the exported reset functions.
>
> Thanks for your work!
>
> Best regards,
> Bartosz Golaszewski

Sounds like a good plan to me. FYI, I've started a common-clk-v9 branch
on my GitHub already with a few minor fixes.