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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 1996 01:43:34 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards)
Message-ID:  <199602010043.BAA24005@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <5377.823120360@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 96 09:32:40 pm

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> 	The "FreeBSD gadget":
> 
> 		Watchdog, can be set to timouts of 1s, 10s and 60s or
> 		something.  Will launch a RESET, NMI, or IRQ (jumper).

NMI, 5 minutes later RESET.  Gives the kernel a chance to coredump.

Don't forget to add a small BIOS ROM that disables the watchdog
during ROM SCAN, just in case.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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