Supermicro BIOS's watchdog feature?

[Matthew Jacob]

On 6/30/2010 2:01 AM, Xin LI wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Is there anybody used the Supermicro's BIOS watchdog feature (reboot if
> no OS activities)?
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> It seems that ICH10R's watchdog is supported by ichwd(4) but Supermicro
> BIOS needs some special treatments which is beyond what ichwd(4) and
> watchdogd(8) would do...
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You're talking about the TCO stuff, which is actually present in ICH5 (I 
think) onward.

Hmm. We use this at Panasas for at least one class of machines and it 
seems to work fine for those SuperMicro BIOS'.

What do mean "special" treatment?