Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: Fix timer regression for beagleboard revision c

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Fri Dec 17 2021 - 07:17:26 EST


* Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [211213 05:44]:
> * Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx> [211212 19:05]:
> > On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 05:30:57PM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> > This I used years before your patch and by some reason I confused to use
> > new omap3-beagle-ab4.dtb when testing your patch yesterday:
> >
> > > cat arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-beagle-ab4.dtb >>arch/arm/boot/zImage
> >
> > without realizing my Beagle Board version is not between A to B4 but C2.
> > So when using the omap3-beagle.dtb your patch fixes the regression I
> > found.
> >
> > Tested-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> OK good to hear omap3-beagle.dtb now works for beagles that don't have
> the A to B4 hardware timer issue :) And thanks for testing.
>
> It seems the beagle revisions A to B4 are broken for any kind of power
> management as the clockevent timer for those boards is not always on.
> Probably not worth spending much effort on those. Maybe the PMIC could
> be reconfigured on the buggy revisions in addition to the timer quirks
> if somebody still cares for those board revisions.

Anyways, applying this fix into omap-for-v5.17/fixes-not-urgent.

Regards,

Tony