Re: Winbond Watchdog [Was Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?]

2010-08-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/08/2010 20:39 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: There are not many assertions put in place and it only checks one of the two base ports as I had only done it for me so far. Unfortunately there is no ACPI WDRT entry here (either?). devinfo -r was to some use though. ACPI WDRT seems to

Winbond Watchdog [Was Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?]

2010-08-07 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/07/01 00:12, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Perhaps the motherboard has additional watchdog hardware? If you disable the watchdog in BIOS, does ichwd still work? If

Re: Winbond Watchdog [Was Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?]

2010-08-07 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Xin LI wrote: Hey, a bit unrealted but I faced some of those problems lately as well. On 2010/07/01 00:12, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Perhaps the motherboard has additional watchdog hardware? If

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Perhaps the motherboard has additional watchdog hardware? If you disable the watchdog in BIOS, does ichwd still work? If I kill -9 watchdogd the system do reset itself so I think ichwd(4) really works even if BIOS

Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Is there anybody used the Supermicro's BIOS watchdog feature (reboot if no OS activities)? It seems that ICH10R's watchdog is supported by ichwd(4) but Supermicro BIOS needs some special treatments which is beyond what ichwd(4) and

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 6/30/2010 2:01 AM, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Is there anybody used the Supermicro's BIOS watchdog feature (reboot if no OS activities)? It seems that ICH10R's watchdog is supported by ichwd(4) but Supermicro BIOS needs some special treatments which

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Matthew Jacob m...@feral.com writes: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: It seems that ICH10R's watchdog is supported by ichwd(4) but Supermicro BIOS needs some special treatments which is beyond what ichwd(4) and watchdogd(8) would do... What do mean special treatment? The watchdog timer

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/06/30 14:49, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Matthew Jacob m...@feral.com writes: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: It seems that ICH10R's watchdog is supported by ichwd(4) but Supermicro BIOS needs some special treatments which is beyond

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: Hmm... Sorry I think I didn't described the behavior accurately. Currently if I enable the Watch Dog option in BIOS, the system reboots after ~5 mins regardless whether I have ichwd(4) and watchdogd(8) loaded. Perhaps the motherboard has additional watchdog

Re: Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

2010-06-30 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/06/30 15:19, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Xin LI delp...@delphij.net writes: Hmm... Sorry I think I didn't described the behavior accurately. Currently if I enable the Watch Dog option in BIOS, the system reboots after ~5 mins regardless