Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] aspeed: introduce the APB clock settings

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 June 2018 at 08:56, Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Aspeed SoC clocks are driven by an input source clock which can
> have different frequencies : 24MHz or 25MHz, and also, on the Aspeed
> AST2400 SoC, 48MHz. The H-PLL (CPU) clock is defined from a calculation
> using parameters in the H-PLL Parameter register or from a predefined
> set of frequencies if the setting is strapped by hardware (Aspeed
> AST2400 SoC). The other clocks of the SoC are then defined from the
> H-PLL using dividers.
>
> We first introduce the APB clock because it drives the timer model.
> This fixes a slowdown issue on the palmetto machine (AST2400) when
> running Linux. The latest Linux versions take into account more
> precisely the SoC settings for the clocks and the APB freq is set to
> 48MHz but modeled at 24MHz by QEMU.
>
> Thanks,
>



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

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