From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933857AbcIUMKs (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:10:48 -0400 Received: from achernar.gro-tsen.net ([195.154.91.68]:53535 "EHLO achernar.gro-tsen.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933064AbcIUMKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:10:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:10:41 +0200 From: David Madore To: Mika Westerberg Cc: Linux Kernel mailing-list Subject: Re: iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY Message-ID: <20160921121041.GA20766@achernar.madore.org> References: <20160908170109.GA927@achernar.madore.org> <20160920125009.GQ1811@lahna.fi.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160920125009.GQ1811@lahna.fi.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ )