On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:06:31PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > Matt, > > [snip] > > > What do you see as the advantage to having a watchdog driver > > that uses the booke hardware watchdog facility over a generic > > timebase driven driver? > > I would think the watchdog would be useful in cases that the normal > decrementer exceptions gets disabled when MSR[EE] = 0.
That's the only thing I can think of. I guess my question then is whether people think this is important enough in practice to have the hardware watchdog as an alternative. My guess is yes, but I don't have a strong opinion. -Matt
