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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:06:31 -0600
To: "Matt Porter" <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: PowerPC4xx Watchdog
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Matt,

[snip]

> What do you see as the advantage to having a watchdog driver
>  that uses the booke hardware watchdog facility over a generic
>  timebase driven driver?

I would think the watchdog would be useful in cases that the normal 
decrementer exceptions gets disabled when MSR[EE] = 0.

- kumar