PATCH: Another mpc8xx watchdog driver !!

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <3FFB450D.7060405 at tait.co.nz> you wrote:
>
> > Do you really mean RTC here???
>
> Yes - the 866 and derivatives (859 etc) do NOT have a Real Time Clock
> block. This means that hooking the RTC interrupt to 'kick the dog' is
> rather difficult :-))

That may be the case. But the watchdog code does not use any  RTC  at
all.

> "It is based on the code of Florian Schirmer but using kernel timers (as
> used by the DENX driver) rather than the RTC."

Have you ever seen a MPC8xx watchdog driver that used RTC for
triggering?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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