From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 12:19:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4F810656AD for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403FE8FC26 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E675B46B49; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:19:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 933028A04E; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:19:45 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201008301441.o7UEf9AS090773@lava.sentex.ca> <201008301719.o7UHJ3jU091572@lava.sentex.ca> <4C7C2867.8000407@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4C7C2867.8000407@icyb.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008310752.38299.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:19:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Olivier Smedts , jfvogel@gmail.com, Andriy Gapon , Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: svn commit: r211908 - head/sys/dev/ichwd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:19:47 -0000 On Monday, August 30, 2010 5:53:43 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 30/08/2010 20:18 Mike Tancsa said the following: > > At 12:51 PM 8/30/2010, Olivier Smedts wrote: > > > >> By any chance, is it disabled in BIOS ? > > > > Hi, > > There are a couple of options in the BIOS. There is a "reboot the box if the > > bios does not post within 6min" as well as "Fire the watchdog if the dog has not > > been patted after 5,10 or 15min after the BIOS post. I tried all combinations > > without luck. If I have the "reboot after x min post post", the box will reboot > > on its own. > > I'd guess that this kind of option would enable OS use of the watchdog. > Perhaps you can contact Intel about this issue, either via their official > support service or via jfv (who is CCed as I see) or both. Most likely these options are for the watchdog in the BMC that IPMI manages rather than the watchdog in the ICH. -- John Baldwin