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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:31:46 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] watchdog disable for socfpga
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On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 at 02:30:01 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2014-09-09 14:20:23, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 at 02:03:28 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > This adds watchdog disable. It is neccessary for running Linux kernel.
> > 
> > Why do we not enable WDT in Linux instead ? Also, I recall there was a
> > call to explicitly enable the L4 watchdog, so why do we not get rid of
> > that instead ?
> 
> Booting linux kernel without watchdog support should be valid
> operation.

If you watchdog is enabled, then not so much. Also, why can we not just disable 
the WDT in U-Boot instead using a config option ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut