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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jan 19 08:51:38 EST 2008


On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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

So I'll ask, what serial input are you waiting for from the boot  
wrapper?

- k



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list