From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Robin Gilks Cc: linuxppc mail list Subject: Re: PATCH: Another mpc8xx watchdog driver !! From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:30:21 +1300." <3FFB450D.7060405@tait.co.nz> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:35:34 +0100 Message-Id: <20040106233539.63641C12DD@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3FFB450D.7060405@tait.co.nz> you wrote: > > > Do you really mean RTC here??? > > Yes - the 866 and derivatives (859 etc) do NOT have a Real Time Clock > block. This means that hooking the RTC interrupt to 'kick the dog' is > rather difficult :-)) That may be the case. But the watchdog code does not use any RTC at all. > "It is based on the code of Florian Schirmer but using kernel timers (as > used by the DENX driver) rather than the RTC." Have you ever seen a MPC8xx watchdog driver that used RTC for triggering? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/