From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 12:49:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9922B16A4CF for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4350943D2F for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 46978 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Mar 2004 20:49:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 20:49:06 -0000 Message-ID: <406344E4.6030207@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:45:24 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wm. Daryl Hawkins" References: <3D0AE03BE5EFEC4DB04D42326CA218477D5101@spruce.ne.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3D0AE03BE5EFEC4DB04D42326CA218477D5101@spruce.ne.tamu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:49:09 -0000 Wm. Daryl Hawkins wrote: > I've written a driver for the Intel i8xx TCO watchdog timer for both FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. This is my first driver and it's only seen limited testing, so proceed with caution! The FreeBSD-CURRENT package contains a loadable kernel module and was written to work with Poul-Henning Kamp's watchdog driver model. The FreeBSD-STABLE package contains both the loadable kernel module and a userland daemon. > > I've tested it with 4.9, 5.2.1, and CURRENT on a Supermicro P4SGE motherboard and would be grateful for any suggestions, comments, bug reports, or complaints! :) > > If there is sufficient interest (and once I've gotten some comment on the structure and inner workings of this driver), I'd also like to write a driver for the AMD-8000 series chipset. You can get the driver at: http://freebsd.tamu.edu/wdog/ > > -- Daryl > > This is wonderful. I'd be happy to test it and shepherd it in. Does it support the intel 750x chips also? Scott