Re: iTCO watchdog timer

[Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>]

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.
> 
> 

Hi Wim,

Just wondered if you had any more thoughts or if you have any test you 
would like me to run.

Regards,
Steve

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