Michael Keuter wrote: >> Michael Keuter wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> because of the problems with my crashing net4801, today I got a new >>> net5501. >>> I didn't found a running watchdog process in Astlinux 0.6.1. >>> >>> Are there no drivers for Linux or what is the reason? >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> PS: Found about that: >>> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2008-June/014503.html >>> >>> >> Michael, >> >> Because of the age of the kernel in the 0.6 branch (2.6.20.x) it's >> unlikely that all hardware features of the net5501 board will be >> supported in 0.6. We recently bumped the kernel in trunk to 2.6.25.x. >> There is more hardware support for the net5501 in that kernel. That >> being said, I can NOT recommend using trunk at this point. We are still >> making adjustments. It's not likely to be 100% stable for a yet >> unspecified time. >> >> I have several installations with net5501 boards, all running very >> stable for months on the 0.6 branch. >> >> Darrick >> > > Hi Darrick, > > that means that the watchdog feature of the net5501 will be supported > in a future version of Astlinux with a newer kernel. Is that right? > It's no problem for me right now, I just asked because I didn't found > that process. > > Michael >
I haven't had time to research this... Is it present in 2.6.25.19? And how do you enable it? If you send me directions, I'll try to enable it for trunk... -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
