From: David Madore <david+ml@madore.org>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:10:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921121041.GA20766@achernar.madore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920125009.GQ1811@lahna.fi.intel.com>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Does the machine have WDAT ACPI table (see /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*)?
> If it does, you can try the new WDAT watchdog driver instead [1]. It
> still uses the same hardware, though but via set of instructions
> provided by the BIOS that should work (given the vendor has tested
> it on Windows).
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1230607.html
Thanks for pointing this out. My motherboard's BIOS does not have
this ACPI table, unfortunately, but it's at least good to know that
some do, and take the hardware watchdog seriously.
--
David A. Madore
( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 17:01 iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY David Madore
2016-09-20 12:50 ` Mika Westerberg
2016-09-21 12:10 ` David Madore [this message]
2016-09-21 13:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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