Hello Mathias,

Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 18:16:39, Mathias Adam a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I just got OpenWrt running on a Huawei E970 wireless gateway (in my
> case, labelled as T-Mobile web'n'walk Box IV).
> 
> The device has a Broadcom BCM5354 SoC and a built-in 3G USB modem.
> For reference, it has already been addressed in this open ticket:
> <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2711>
> 
> However, the device has a hardware watchdog which needs GPIO7 to be
> toggled regularly. Otherwise, the device simply resets after 2-3 secs,
> so I wasn't even able to boot into OpenWrt at first.
> 
> As a quick fix I put together a small kernel patch which adds a timer to
> regularly perform the GPIO toggle. While this does work for me, I think
> it could need some cleanup... perhaps, is there already an
> infrastructure related to platform-/board-specific watchdogs where this
> could be attached to?
> 
> Are there other devices already supported by OpenWrt with a similar
> watchdog?

The MTX-1 board (AMD Alchemy) is using a similar GPIO-based watchdog:

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.4/drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c

such a driver could be made generic by the way.

> 
> (I've also posted to the forum:
> <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=150278#p150278> but didn't
> get any answers, hope it's better suited here...)
> 
> Regards,
> Mathias Adam
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Florian
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