On 16/10/2015 16:46, Daniel Fahlgren wrote: > The spec can be found at > http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/206865/WINBOND/W83627THF.html > > To quote the datasheet about the other features: > > "83627THF is a Winbond LPC I/O product. It integrates the following > major peripheral functions in a chip: the disk driver adapter (FDC), > Serial port (UART), Parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP), Keyboard controller > (KBC), SIR, Game port, MIDI port, Hardware Monitor, ACPI, On Now Wake-Up > features." > > My reason for implementing this watchdog is that I have a Linux system > image that depends on /dev/watchdog being present. That image only has a > single kernel module for watchdogs enabled which happened to be this > one. So no advantages except diversity and giving the users the option > to choose from different devices.
I see. Since you modeled it as an ISA device, it makes sense to extract the watchdog out of the SuperIO chip. Can you write a testcase similar to tests/wdt_ib700-test.c? With that we can accept the patch. Thanks, Paolo
