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From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iTCO watchdog timer
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:30:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D0628E.9030205@seclark.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306212820.GA2866@infomag.infomag.iguana.be>

Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry but it's quite busy at the moment...
>
>   
>>> I have new Intel DG33FB mainboard.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mar  2 20:47:19 joker1 kernel: iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
>>> Mar  2 20:47:19 joker1 kernel: iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver 
>>> v1.02 (26-Jul-2007)
>>> Mar  2 20:47:19 joker1 kernel: iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH9DH TCO device 
>>> (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
>>> Mar  2 20:47:19 joker1 kernel: iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec 
>>> (nowayout=0)
>>> ...
>>> Mar  4 14:22:59 joker1 kernel: iTCO_wdt: Unexpected close, not stopping 
>>> watchdog!
>>>
>>>
>>> I start watchdog.c and then kill it expecting the system to reboot - but 
>>> it doesn't.
>>>
>>> Isn't this how it is supposed to work?
>>>       
>
> This is indeed how it should work. It's indeed strange that the system doesn't
> reboot. If I find some time I will give you some test code to run.
>
> Greetings,
> Wim.
>
>
>   
That would be much appreciated. One of the reasons I bought this mother 
board was the WDT.

Steve

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 20:10 iTCO watchdog timer Stephen Clark
2008-03-04 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-06 21:28   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2008-03-06 21:30     ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2008-03-27 18:28     ` Stephen Clark
2008-03-27 18:34       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2008-03-27 18:58         ` Stephen Clark
     [not found]           ` <20080327205414.GB15490@infomag.infomag.iguana.be>
     [not found]             ` <47ECF996.6020600@earthlink.net>
2008-05-06 12:14               ` Stephen Clark

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