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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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  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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