[PATCH v3] Enhanced support for MPC8xx/8xxx watchdog

2013-08-08 Thread Christophe Leroy
This patch modifies the behaviour of the MPC8xx/8xxx watchdog. On the MPC8xx, at 133Mhz, the maximum timeout of the watchdog timer is 1s, which means it must be pinged twice a second. This is not in line with the Linux watchdog concept which is based on a default watchdog timeout around 60s. This

[PATCH v3] Enhanced support for MPC8xx/8xxx watchdog

2013-08-08 Thread Christophe Leroy
This patch modifies the behaviour of the MPC8xx/8xxx watchdog. On the MPC8xx, at 133Mhz, the maximum timeout of the watchdog timer is 1s, which means it must be pinged twice a second. This is not in line with the Linux watchdog concept which is based on a default watchdog timeout around 60s. This