RE: [PATCH V4 2/4] rtc: add i.MX system controller RTC support

From: Anson Huang
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 04:37:53 EST


Hi, Alexandre

Best Regards!
Anson Huang

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/4] rtc: add i.MX system controller RTC support
>
> Hello,
>
> On 29/11/2018 01:50:11+0000, Anson Huang wrote:
> > i.MX8QXP is an ARMv8 SoC which has a Cortex-M4 system controller
> > inside, the system controller is in charge of controlling power, clock
> > and secure rtc etc..
> >
> > This patch adds i.MX system controller RTC driver support, Linux
> > kernel has to communicate with system controller via MU (message unit)
> > IPC to set/get RTC time and other alarm functions, since the RTC set
> > time needs to be done in secure EL3 mode (required by system
> > controller firmware) and alarm functions needs to be done with general
> > MU IRQ handle, these depend on other components which are NOT ready,
> > so this patch ONLY enables the RTC time read.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > ChangeLog:
> > V3->V4:
> > *remove unnecessary headfile included;
> > *fix potential memory currpution for the message responce;
> > *update the compatible string name to start with "fsl" instead of "nxp".
> > drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 6 +++
> > drivers/rtc/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/rtc/rtc-imx-sc.c | 98
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 105 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/rtc/rtc-imx-sc.c
> >
>
> I applied it on my test branch and this makes sparc64-allyesconfig fail
> with:
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imx-sc.o: In function `imx_sc_rtc_read_time':
> rtc-imx-sc.c:(.text+0x34): undefined reference to `imx_scu_call_rpc'
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imx-sc.o: In function `imx_sc_rtc_probe':
> rtc-imx-sc.c:(.text+0x90): undefined reference to `imx_scu_get_handle'

Maybe there are some changes on basic support of imx scu driver, I will resend
a patch set later, thanks.

Anson.

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