On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:41:18PM -0500, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if someone could help me with answering couple of my questions: > > How watchdog resetting is handled for PPC > in Linux 2.6 on the kernel level ? > Does one need to add code for it or is it supported "off the shelf" ?
It is not supported off the shelf. We (Cyclades) have a timer to periodically touch the watchdog on boot, and afterwards a watchdog driver which gets periodically written by a userspace daemon. I can send a patch if you wish. > Is "early printk" supported for PPC on 2.6 ? > If yes - how and where it could be enabled? Not sure.
