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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