Dear "Dennis Lan (dlan)",
In message CAF1ZMEcVWc3DNdcb7gQ60D-8Nx-MHOpkLs=eY0ph2w_Lgcozaw@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