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This is a rewrite of #4065 which cleans up the implementations significantly.

The LPTMR module is a prerequisite in order to keep the xtimer running in low power modes on Kinetis.
This PR adds support for both PIT and LPTMR hardware modules in the configuration, but keeps the old behaviour of using the PIT module for the underlying timer in xtimer.

A future PR will improve the xtimer to support 32768 Hz timers to let the LPTMR act as underlying timer for xtimer, but I would like to get the hardware device driver support in first.

Based on #5607

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jnohlgard commented Jul 5, 2016

Rebased on #5607

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I've been running this for a few days straight on Mulle using the LPTMR as xtimer source (together with #5608). Could someone with a pba-d-01-kw2x or frdm-k64f board run some of the xtimer tests on this PR as a quick check to make sure they still run?

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jnohlgard commented Jul 7, 2016

@PeterKietzmann you usually have some hardware around, do you have any Kinetis boards?

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kYc0o commented Jul 7, 2016

I'm at FU now, so I can have access to one pba-d-01-kw2x, I think is this one?

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jnohlgard commented Jul 7, 2016

@kYc0o yes, that should be the one AFAIK

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kYc0o commented Jul 7, 2016

Great, looking into it.

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jnohlgard commented Jul 7, 2016

Thanks!

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kYc0o commented Jul 7, 2016

tests/periph_timer works as expected and all xtimer tests passed with impressive results!

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kYc0o commented Jul 7, 2016

I'm not very familiar with these boards but code looks OK, so I give my ACK ;)

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jnohlgard commented Jul 7, 2016

The main point of this PR is to add a driver for the low-power timer (LPTMR) which keeps running and counting during low power modes. The PIT is another hardware timer with greater flexibility and higher possible frequency, and it is currently used for xtimer, but it stops counting whenever the CPU goes to a power save mode, which makes it useless for scheduling wake ups.
Once we have xtimer working on underlying timers with 32.768 kHz frequency, we will be able to use xtimer to schedule wake ups from power save modes.

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kYc0o commented Jul 7, 2016

Great! It would be nice to have such capabilities. Looking forward to get #5608 merged too! :D

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