Hi, On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:32:27AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 04/23/2014 08:04 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >That code used to be in the machine code, but it's more fit here with other > >restart hooks. > > > >That will allow to cleanup the machine directory, while waiting for a proper > >watchdog driver for the A31. > > > >Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> > > I am a bit lost here. Why is this a separate driver, accessing watchdog > registers, > while the other reset functions are being moved into the watchdog code ? > > Any chance to handle all platforms the same ? Seems to me that would be less > messy.
The A31 watchdog is actually a different watchdog from the one in the other Allwinner SoCs, that probably needs a driver of its own, or at least, a significant refactoring. No one did this yet, but eventually this will probably happen. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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