From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Robin Gilks <robin.gilks@tait.co.nz>
Cc: linuxppc mail list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: wdt_mpc8xx documentation
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:30:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031219203034.392F6C5F5F@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:32:13 +1300." <3FE12DCD.10609@tait.co.nz>
In message <3FE12DCD.10609@tait.co.nz> you wrote:
>
> Whilst rummaging about the PPC development tree I came across the
> Siemens/SGI/Denx watchdog driver for the mpc8xx. It references a man
> page which so far I've not been able to find (man wdt_mpx8xx(4)) so I'm
> a bit clueless about what the monitor chain code does.
In the top directory of the Linux source tree, type:
man Documentation/man4/wdt_mpc8xx.4
> It doesn't seem to relate to the generic watchdog_api.txt in the kernel
> documentation (at least the defines don't seem to tie in with any of the
> ioctl options).
You are right; this watchdog driver provides a very different API
with a few pretty powerful options (like escalation strategies etc.)
> Any help here appreciated.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-19 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-18 4:32 wdt_mpc8xx documentation Robin Gilks
2003-12-18 5:52 ` Andreas Oberritter
2003-12-18 16:13 ` Tom Rini
2003-12-18 16:59 ` Andreas Oberritter
2003-12-18 22:10 ` Robin Gilks
2003-12-19 20:30 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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