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    ARM: OMAP3: Dynamically disable secure timer nodes for secure devices · ad24bde8
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    OMAP3 devices may or may not have security features enabled. Security enabled
    devices are known as high-secure (HS) and devices without security are known as
    general purpose (GP).
    
    For OMAP3 devices there are 12 general purpose timers available. On secure
    devices the 12th timer is reserved for secure usage and so cannot be used by
    the kernel, where as for a GP device it is available. We can detect the OMAP
    device type, secure or GP, at runtime via an on-chip register. Today, when not
    using DT, we do not register the 12th timer as a linux device if the device is
    secure.
    
    When using device tree, device tree is going to register all the timer devices
    it finds in the device tree blob. To prevent device tree from registering 12th
    timer on a secure OMAP3 device we can add a status property to the timer
    binding with the value "disabled" at boot time. Note that timer 12 on a OMAP3
    device has a property "ti,timer-secure" to indicate that it will not be
    available on a secure device and so for secure OMAP3 devices, we search for
    timers with this property and then disable them. Using the prom_add_property()
    function to dynamically add a property was a recommended approach suggested by
    Rob Herring [1].
    
    I have tested this on an OMAP3 GP device and faking it to pretend to be a
    secure device to ensure that any timers marked with "ti,timer-secure" are not
    registered on boot. I have also made sure that all timers are registered as
    expected on a GP device by default.
    
    [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/79203
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
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