[PATCH/RFCv2] [POWERPC] Add support for freescale watchdog to CPM serial driver.

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sat Jan 19 07:40:30 EST 2008


On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:47:43 +0100
Jochen Friedrich <jochen at scram.de> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> >> If a freescale watchdog device node is present, reset the watchdog
> >> while waiting for serial input.
> > 
> > Why ? We normally rely on user space for watchdog management as only the
> > fact user space is behaving really proves a box is happy ?
> 
> This is in the boot wrapper code, not in the linux kernel.

Ok now that makes sense, thanks



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list