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arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for A-008585 erratum

This erratum describes a bug in logic outside the core, so MIDR can't be
used to identify its presence, and reading an SoC-specific revision
register from common arch timer code would be awkward.  So, describe it
in the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Scott Wood 9 years ago
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Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt

@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs.
 - always-on : a boolean property. If present, the timer is powered through an
 - always-on : a boolean property. If present, the timer is powered through an
   always-on power domain, therefore it never loses context.
   always-on power domain, therefore it never loses context.
 
 
+- fsl,erratum-a008585 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of
+  QorIQ erratum A-008585, which says that reading the counter is
+  unreliable unless the same value is returned by back-to-back reads.
+  This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
+  counter read.
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 ** Optional properties:
 ** Optional properties:
 
 
 - arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize
 - arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize