Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Sean Kelly <smkelly@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Remove "options HW_WDOG"? Message-ID: <200307292043.h6TKhBIh078195@www.ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307231734360.60197-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer writes: | this code WAS used in the interjet. | We had modules that linked in and just needed somewhere to hook into.. | the hardware watchdog was held off by our software, but we needed to add | code to the core-dump routines to routinely call the watchdog hold-off | or we could never get a coredump because the watchdog would always go | off before the dump was completed. | | I doubt it is used by anyone any more but It's good that you asked.. | I did notice some people were working on the watchdog support for the | chipsets that have a watchdog in them so I guess they wil have all their | own entrypoints. Most sane watchdogs let you disable them. The ones I've implemented allow this. I then added code to the panic/debugger code to disable consmute and disable the watchdog. I know the Whistle one didn't let you do this so we had to tickle it during panics etc. Doug A.
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