rebooting with the FADS

Yannis Plevrakis iple at intracom.gr
Thu Sep 21 17:11:57 EST 2000


>
> on my FADS, i see that it is not possible to reboot from software: you
must
> press the reset buttons to do this.
>

Just a "brute force" alternative:
In case you don't mind having a latency of tens/hundrends of miliseconds
before rebooting
and you want a soft reboot very similar to a hardware one, generating a
HRESET signal,
a very simple approach could be to use the software watchdog timer.

Yannis.


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