PowerPC4xx Watchdog

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Thu Mar 3 10:06:31 EST 2005


Matt,

[snip]

> What do you see as the advantage to having a watchdog driver
>  that uses the booke hardware watchdog facility over a generic
>  timebase driven driver?

I would think the watchdog would be useful in cases that the normal 
decrementer exceptions gets disabled when MSR[EE] = 0.

- kumar




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