Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:49:08 -0800 From: Keith Simonsen <bangel@elite.net> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: d@delphij.net, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] winbond watchdog driver for FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 Message-ID: <4EE65AB4.1010405@elite.net> In-Reply-To: <7BD6CA15-3329-4684-8127-665CDC171B22@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: <4E0A5689.2020302@delphij.net> <20111207092907.GA1645@garage.freebsd.pl> <7BD6CA15-3329-4684-8127-665CDC171B22@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On 12/7/2011 02:17, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On 7. Dec 2011, at 09:29 , Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 03:32:41PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to request for comments on the attached driver, which supports >>> watchdogs on several Winbond super I/O chip models and have been tested >>> on a few of recent Supermicro motherboards. >> >> Is there any reason this is not yet committed? Please commit, pretty >> please. > > Yes we have 2+ of them and are trying to merge. The other one sits here > and allows you even longer timeouts as well as time setting the timeout > independent of watchdogd in case you have two watchdogs and want to do tricks > like NMI/reset with the other one... but is lacking the man page yet. > I have added another one or two IC revisions I think that I had found > and tested privately. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/patch-20110710-03-wbwd.diff > 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. I'm also trying to use the above winbond chip for GPIO (userland bit banging at this point). > /bz > -Keith
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