Jan, I've just posted patch that enables booting without watchdog driver if "watchog=0" is provided as parameter.
It does not alter original behavior and if timeout is not zero it will fail as expected if no driver is found. However, It provides the way to run without watchdog to cover additional use cases. Please let me know if this is something you would include in your code base. Regards, -Dmitri On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 4:18:17 PM UTC-5, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > On 2018-01-31 22:06, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We build images with Yocto project for several different platforms > > including VMware and I'm trying to use efibootguard + swupdate for > > handling firmware updates. However, I'm having troubles with watchdog > > driver not being found. So, is there a way to have support for generic > > driver? Something like `softdog` that can be used on platforms with no > > hardware watchdog. > > Is VMware a testing or production target? In the former case, adding > some null watchdog might be fine (with a big-fat warning). In the latter > case, you need to study if there is any virtual watchdog support on > VMware and write some driver. QEMU/KVM does have this, and efi-bootguard > supports that. > > Jan > > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EFI Boot Guard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/efibootguard-dev/70ae1895-ea06-4371-adf2-371149cd4146%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
