[RFC] winbond watchdog driver for FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Dec 12 20:26:09 UTC 2011


On 12/12/2011 2:49 PM, Keith Simonsen wrote:
> 
> I've  been using 20110718-02-wbwd.diff for a few months now on a project
> with PC Engines Alix 1.d boards (http://pcengines.ch/alix1d.htm). They
> have a  Winbond W83627HG chip. I don't see any probing/attach messages
> on boot but the driver seems to be properly configuring the chip - if I
> kill watchdogd with -9 the board reboots with watchdog timeout.

Are you sure thats the watchdog thats doing the 'killing' so to speak ?
If you have
option          CPU_GEODE
in your kernel config, you will get the watchdog code there no ?
( /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/geode.c)


	---Mike


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