Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Add module support

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

Hi Will,

On 10/24/25 17:53, William McVicker wrote:
> On 10/24/2025, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> On 23.10.2025 22:52, Will McVicker wrote:
>>> From: Donghoon Yu <hoony.yu@samsung.com>

[ ... ]
>> Sorry, but this still won't work on legacy ARM 32bit systems with MCT as
>> the only clocksource, which needs a driver available very early (that's
>> why it used TIMER_OF_DECLAREmacro). You need to make it conditional
>> under CONFIG_ARM:
> 
> Can we rely on the bootloader to setup the MCT timer and then hand-off at boot
> once the driver is initialized?
> 
> Daniel was working on a solution to transparently handle calling
> TIMER_OF_DECLARE() when a timer driver can be configured as both a module or
> built-in here:
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625085715.889837-1-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org/
> 
> Daniel, do you have plans to finish that? In the meantime, can we go with the
> `#if CONFIG_ARM` solution?

I have a plan to finish that but it is low in my priority list. So I 
guess we can go for the CONFIG_ARM solution in the meantime.



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