Re: [RFC 1/3] dt-bindings: Correct RISC-V's timebase-frequency

[Atish Patra]

On 9/17/18 7:20 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:54:54PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> > From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Someone must have read the device tree specification incorrectly,
> > because we were putting timebase-frequency in the wrong place.  This
> > corrects the issue, moving it from
>
> Last time this was brought up we actually had realy life DTs with
> the timebase-frequency under cpus and not the invidual cpu node.

Unfortunately, it still is. I hope SiFive can publish the updated 
firmware with correct DT entries. I can patch BBL to fix these DT issues 
until the firmware update if that's accepted.


> I think we need to just document both possibilities and live with
> them.
Yup. That was the intention. I will update the document/commit text to 
reflect that.


Regards,
Atish