Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6

["P.O. Gaillard" <pierre-olivier.gaillard@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen
> Hi!
> 
> I have P8SCi motherboard, and I just tried the watchdog with Linux 2.6.10.
> 
> I loaded w83627hf_wdt driver, and the watchdog was detected:
> 
> WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip initialising.
> w83627hf WDT: initialized. timeout=60 sec (nowayout=0)
> 
> But it is not working. I tried setting the timeout to 1 minute, and to
> 8 minute in the BIOS, but the machine reboots after the delay no matter what
> the delay is.. the watchdog driver is loaded before the timeout of course.
> 
> For some reason, the driver is not working.
> 
> I mailed supermicro support about this, and they told me one of their
> customers is using watchdog with Debian 2.6.10 kernel. 
> So it should work, but..
> 
> Is there some patches I could try? 
Hi !
I am so glad to find somebody interested in this issue ;-)

I am not sure about which watchdog is working in the P8SCi. On my P4Sci, the 
working watchdog was the one in Intel's southbridge with the i8xx-tco driver. I 
tried to use this driver with the P8SAA. To do that I had to use 2.6.11rc2bk9 to 
get ICH6 support in the i8xx-tco driver. But as you may know, the watchdog is 
not working on the P8SAA.

This might be a good bet for you.

	sincerely,

	P.O. Gaillard