From: gdavis@mvista•com (George G. Davis)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Watchdog: Adding support for Watchdog found with ARM CortexA9
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:20:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100518132050.GA8748@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikCC108eWniEBwzYsbkEUYQocICaLtd7FD_vMQ1@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:55:21PM +0530, srinidhi kasagar wrote:
> I do not understand why a new driver is required while having similar one
> for MPCore watchdog.
> Please have a look at drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c
The same thought occurred to me. Based on a cursory glance at the Cortex-A9
MPCore and ARM11 MPCore, the per-CPU watchdogs do appear to be the same
and could use the same driver.
Any reason for creating a new driver rather than reusing the ARM11
MPCore driver?
--
Regards,
George
>
> srinidhi
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar@st•com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/17/2010 4:14 PM, Jassi Brar wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar@st•com>
> > wrote:
> > >> Watchdog details can be found in ARM Cortex A9 reference manual at:
> > >>
> > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0407e/indix.html
> > > The link doesn't work.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry!! i will correct it in V2.
> > till then replace indix.html with index.html.
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 9:54 [PATCH] Watchdog: Adding support for Watchdog found with ARM CortexA9 Viresh KUMAR
2010-05-17 9:56 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-05-17 10:44 ` Jassi Brar
2010-05-17 11:24 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-05-18 9:25 ` srinidhi kasagar
2010-05-18 13:20 ` George G. Davis [this message]
2010-05-19 4:02 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-05-19 5:17 ` srinidhi kasagar
2010-05-19 6:44 ` Viresh KUMAR
2010-09-22 15:36 ` mpcore_wdt A9 questions John Linn
2010-09-22 15:56 ` George G. Davis
2010-05-19 5:32 ` [PATCH] Watchdog: Adding support for Watchdog found with ARM CortexA9 Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-05-19 6:45 ` Viresh KUMAR
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