On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:01 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> QNAP has confirmed that this is the right command to disable the
> watchdog and that it's safe to send 0x67 to the PIC on older devices
> (simply nothing will happen).
Great, thanks for confirming this!
> In addition to Helmut's patch (thanks!), we'll have to modify
> debian/udeb/debian-installer-startup.d/S99qcontrol
> and
> debian/init.d
> to disable the watchdog.
Yes.
> (Hmm, debian/init.d is currently run when the system has finished
> booting; this may be too late to turn off the watchdog, e.g. if fsck
> is running.)
In Sid (where qcontrol has a proper daemon mode) we currently have two
initscripts, one runs early and starts the daemon, the other just
flashes the leds etc when the boot is complete.
Might need to add something similar to the package in Wheezy.
Ian.
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