new code for an mpc8xx board (dbox2)

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:12:48PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:36:34PM +0200, Florian Schirmer wrote:
[snip]
> [snip]
> > I would like to see the userspace interface merged too
> > (http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/driver/wdt/mpc8xx_wdt.c).
> > I propose to drop the kernel watchdog patch and merge in the following
> > functions of the userspace interface instead:
> >
> > mpc8xx_wdt_reset (needs to be exported to modules)
> > mpc8xx_wdt_interrupt
> > mpc8xx_wdt_handler_install (has to called during kernel init)
> >
> > mpc8xx_wdt_handler_remove is dead and can be removed.
>
> I need a bit of time to think about this (and a 'new' patch would be
> nice as well).  I'll get back to you.

Okay.  After reading the driver above, I would be fine with you submitting
this to Marcelo once 2.4.23-pre1 opens, and submitting it to 2.6 as well
(yes, you won't be able to test it, but you can at least see if you
ported the driver 'up' right).

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Tom Rini
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