Greetings,
I have a standard watchdog driver for that for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.
I'll get the patches together.
G'day,
sjames
Quoting Nick French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What I mean is can this timer be set so that it reboots the machine.
> So for instance a piece of software that is running can keep resetting
> the
> timer to stop the reset then if the software hangs for some reason
> (after
> all we are all human and I don't think there is much code in the world
> that
> has all its paths tested 100%) the machine will reboot itself and start
> running through its setup and in turn run the program again. Hence the
> machine can be left in the knowledge that if it hangs it will reset
> itself
> rather than just hanging like you see some apps on some machines.
>
> If this has always been on motherboards then I whish some apps that I
> have
> had to use would support it.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ollie Lho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Nick French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "LinuxBIOS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Rebooting linuxBIOS...
>
>
> > Nick French wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > What do you want ?? If you only want the "reboot" and "halt"
> function.
> > It is already there. If you want something more fancy you have to
> hack
> > your own.
> >
> > Ollie
> >
>
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