From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gdavis@mvista.com (George G. Davis) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:20:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Watchdog: Adding support for Watchdog found with ARM CortexA9 In-Reply-To: References: <1274090044-10236-1-git-send-email-viresh.kumar@st.com> <4BF12767.4010402@st.com> Message-ID: <20100518132050.GA8748@mvista.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:55:21PM +0530, srinidhi kasagar wrote: > I do not understand why a new driver is required while having similar one > for MPCore watchdog. > Please have a look at drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c The same thought occurred to me. Based on a cursory glance at the Cortex-A9 MPCore and ARM11 MPCore, the per-CPU watchdogs do appear to be the same and could use the same driver. Any reason for creating a new driver rather than reusing the ARM11 MPCore driver? -- Regards, George > > srinidhi > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Viresh KUMAR wrote: > > > On 5/17/2010 4:14 PM, Jassi Brar wrote: > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Viresh KUMAR > > wrote: > > >> Watchdog details can be found in ARM Cortex A9 reference manual at: > > >> > > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0407e/indix.html > > > The link doesn't work. > > > > > > > Sorry!! i will correct it in V2. > > till then replace indix.html with index.html. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel