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The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Currently, quite a few clockevent devices have cpumask set to
cpu_all_mask which should be fine. However, cpu_possible_mask is more
accurate and if there are any other clockevent devices in the system
which have cpumask set to cpu_possible_mask, then having cpu_all_mask
may result in issues (mostly boot hang with forever loops in
clockevents_notify_released).
So, lets replace all the clockevent device cpu_all_mask to
cpu_possible_mask in order to prevent above mentioned possible issue.
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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VDSO needs real-time cycle count to ensure the time accuracy.
Unlike others, nds32 architecture does not define clock source,
hence VDSO needs atcpit100 offering real-time cycle count
to derive the correct time.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rickchen36@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
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ATCPIT100 is often used on the Andes architecture,
This timer provide 4 PIT channels. Each PIT channel is a
multi-function timer, can be configured as 32,16,8 bit timers
or PWM as well.
For system timer it will set channel 1 32-bit timer0 as clock
source and count downwards until underflow and restart again.
It also set channel 0 32-bit timer0 as clock event and count
downwards until condition match. It will generate an interrupt
for handling periodically.
Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rickchen36@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Add andestech atcpit100 timer
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