[Soekris] Hardware watchdog timer 4526

[Adam Jacob Muller]

On Apr 30, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:

>     0n Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:22:09PM +0100, Matt Brown wrote:
>
>> On 4/30/07, abhimanyu gosain <agosain84 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I have been trying to configure the hardware watchdog timer on  
>>> the soekris
>>> 4526 and havenot been able to get it to work.As far as i have  
>>> read the
>>> timer is built in with the geode processor so it should have  
>>> shown up on
>>> the
>>> harware configuration.
>>>
>>> Have anyone of you gotten the timer to work.If so,Please share your
>>> experiences.
>>
>>
>> Depending on your kernel the following may be relevant:
>>
>> http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2006/07/17/patching-the-sc520- 
>> watchdog-to-reboot-soekris-devices/
>
> Are there patches for {Free,Open}BSD anywghere ? Or does it "just  
> work" on these
> platforms ?

It works just fine for me on FreeBSD, watchdog simply does not reset  
the timer when the kernel goes awry, or if you use the -e option, you  
have rather limitless possibilities of what is required to consider  
the system in a "good" state.

>
>  -aW
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