[PATCH 2/2] watchdog: add watchdog behavior configuration

Wolfgang Denk
2020-09-25T13:04:07Z

Dear Heinrich Schuchardt,

In message <ceeb82b7-eef0-7435-0d0c-958c0bf07e04@gmx.de> you wrote:
>
> > Any so-called "watchdog" that can be disabled / switched off by
> > software is not really woth this name. As such, the concept of
> > disabling a watchdog in software, is misleading at best and should
> > never ibe implemented.
>
> If we want to boot UEFI payloads, we will have to follow the UEFI
> specification even if we think it is not perfect.

That's perfectly OK. But if the OS expects that the watchdog is
disabled, then we should not enable it in U-Boot in the first place.

Keep in ind that any real watchdog (which is worth the money and the
name) _cannot_ be disabled by software once it was started.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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