Does this mean that we can have a watchdog timer on sis630 is this also
available on the m810lmr?
This would be very useful for an embedded style solutions using linuxBIOS.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ollie Lho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "LinuxBIOS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Rebooting linuxBIOS...
> "Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> >
> > I don't know what the current recommended procedure for rebooting is,
> > there was a big discussion about it a while ago, but I didn't track it.
> >
> > For x86 a pretty generic formula is to enable port 0xcf9. And patch
> > the kernel to write to it. And then pass in reboot=hard.
> >
> > I'm not reinventing the wheel here am I?
> >
> > Eric
>
> For SiS 630, we schedule a ACPI watchdog timer, when the timer expired
> it generate reset signal.
>
> Ollie
>
