Hi Antonio, > I added a kernel timer (triggering every 500 ms) to reset the watchdog > of mpc8xx. This timer starts when the driver is opened. The timer is > rearmed till a counter reaches a zero value. A process can use the write > method of the driver to set the counter to a preferred value. If the > application misses to set the counter, it will decrease to zero and then > the board will restart.
You might want to have a look at this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc-embedded/patch?id=14682 Please make sure to call pq_wdt_init() as early as possible to avoid a reset during the initial log buffer flush to the serial console. Thanks, Jochen _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
