[PATCH] Fix IXP4xx CLOCK_TICK_RATE

As pointed out in the following thread, the CLOCK_TICK_RATE setting for
IXP4xx is incorrect b/c the HW ignores the lowest 2 bits of the LATCH
value.

   http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2005-August/030950.html

Tnx to George Anziger and Egil Hjelmeland for finding the issue.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h
index 38c9d77d37276c6167ae6aafe0b28425fe087d7c..3745e35cc030b31f77b1ebbc07ef5d70e18e0e90 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h
+++ b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 /*
  * We use IXP425 General purpose timer for our timer needs, it runs at 
- * 66.66... MHz
+ * 66.66... MHz. We do a convulted calculation of CLOCK_TICK_RATE b/c the
+ * timer register ignores the bottom 2 bits of the LATCH value.
  */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (66666666)
+#define FREQ 66666666
+#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (((FREQ / HZ & ~IXP4XX_OST_RELOAD_MASK) + 1) * HZ)