So far the TSC timer driver supports trying hardware calibration first
and using device tree as last resort for its running frequency as the
normal timer.

However when it is used as the early timer, it only supports hardware
calibration and if it fails, the driver just panics. This introduces
a new config option to specify the early timer frequency in MHz and
it should be equal to the value described in the device tree.

Without this patch, the travis-ci testing on QEMU x86_64 target fails
each time after it finishes the 'bootefi selftest' as the test.py see
an error was emitted on the console like this:

  TSC frequency is ZERO
  resetting ...
  ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

It's strange that this error is consistently seen on the travis-ci
machine, but only occasionally seen on my local machine (maybe 1 out
of 10). Since QEMU x86_64 target enables BOOTSTAGE support which uses
early timer, with this fix it should work without any failure.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

In initr_bootstage() we call bootstage_mark_name() which ends up calling
timer_get_us(). This call happens before initr_dm(), which inits driver
model.

On x86 we set gd->timer to NULL in the transition from board_init_f()
to board_init_r(). See board_init_f_r() for this assignment. So U-Boot
knows there is no timer available in the period immediately after
relocation.

On x86 the timer_get_us() call is implemented as calls to get_ticks() and
get_tbclk(). Both of these call dm_timer_init() to set up the timer, if
gd->timer is NULL and the early timer is not available.

However dm_timer_init() cannot succeed before initr_dm() is called.

So it seems that on x86 if we want to use CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE we must enable
CONFIG_TIMER_EARLY. Update the Kconfig to handle this.

Note: On most architectures we can rely on the pre-relocation memory still
being available, so that gd->timer pointers to a valid timer device and
everything works correctly. Admittedly this is not strictly correct since
the timer device is set up by pre-relocation U-Boot, but normally this is
fine. On x86 the 'CAR' (cache-as-RAM) memory used by pre-relocation U-Boot
disappears in board_init_f_r() and any attempt to access it will hang.
This is the reason why we must mark the timer as invalid when we get to
board_init_f_r().

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

Add a timer driver for the MPC83xx architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mario Six <mario.six@gdsys.cc>

Add timer driver for the Designware APB Timer IP. This is present
for example on the Altera SoCFPGA chips.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Chin Liang See <chin.liang.see@intel.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>

This driver was tested on Xilinx ZynqMP SoC.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>

This timer driver is using GPT Timer (General Purpose Timer)
available on all STM32 SOCs family.
This driver can be used on STM32F4/F7 and H7 SoCs family

Signed-off-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com>

ATCPIT100 is often used in AE3XX platform which is
based on NDS32 architecture recently. But in the future
Andestech will have AE250 platform which is embeded
ATCPIT100 timer based on RISCV architecture.

Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rick@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

ATCPIT100 is Andestech timer IP which is embeded
in AE3XX and AE250 boards. So rename AE3XX to
ATCPIT100 will be more make sence.

Signed-off-by: rick <rick@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rickchen36@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

Add the new Atmel PIT timer driver, which supports the driver model
and device tree.

Signed-off-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@microchip.com>

This adds a device-model driver for the timer block in the RK3368 (and
similar devices that share the same timer block, such as the RK3288) for
the down-counting (i.e. non-secure) timers.

This allows us to configure U-Boot for the RK3368 in such a way that
we can run with the secure timer inaccessible or uninitialised (note
that the ARMv8 generic timer does not count, if the secure timer is
not enabled).

Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>