I figured out how to change the watchdog duration. The example program is here: http://embeddedfreak.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/howto-use-linux-watchdog/
And a good description of the available commands is here: https://github.com/shengchao/beaglebone-angstrom-xenomai/blob/master/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt However, my first question regarding the kernel panic still remains. Also, if I do get a kernel panic, how do I record the error message/code so that I can debug it later? On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:15:02 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: > > Does anyone know that if the watchdog timer is enabled, will a kernel > panic still allow the watchdog to reset? Since it's not an external > watchdog, I wasn't sure what would happen. > > I've seen some cases where the kernel will panic and completely "brick" my > device until it is manually rebooted. I haven't had a chance to debug why > the kernel panics at what seems like random times, so I need to do some > investigation. However, my band-aid to the problem would be to enable the > watchdog timer so that it will automatically reboot. I would just try it, > but I'm having a hard time reproducing a kernel panic. > > Also, on a side note, how do you change the default duration of 60 > seconds? It seems like this info would be all over the internet, but I > haven't found anywhere that talks about this. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
