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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale•com>
Cc: ppcembed <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: PowerPC4xx Watchdog
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:15:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050302161530.D31614@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b83e8f546345414634e6c7518b441996@freescale.com>; from kumar.gala@freescale.com on Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:06:31PM -0600

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:06:31PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 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.

That's the only thing I can think of.  I guess my question then
is whether people think this is important enough in practice
to have the hardware watchdog as an alternative. My guess is yes,
but I don't have a strong opinion. 

-Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-02 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-23 19:00 PowerPC4xx Watchdog Takeharu KATO
2005-02-23 19:15 ` Takeharu KATO
2005-02-23 21:27   ` Matt Porter
2005-02-23 23:23     ` Takeharu KATO
2005-02-23 23:36       ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-02 17:52         ` Matt Porter
2005-03-02 23:06           ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-02 23:15             ` Matt Porter [this message]
2005-03-03 11:50               ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-03 12:13                 ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-03 14:53                   ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-03 15:20                     ` Matt Porter
2005-03-03 15:21                     ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-03 17:11                       ` Matt Porter
2005-03-04  9:38                         ` [PATCH] WDT Driver for Book-E [1/2] Architecture specific part Takeharu KATO
2005-03-04 15:54                           ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-08 17:08                             ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-04  9:38                         ` [PATCH] WDT Driver for Book-E [2/2] Device driver part Takeharu KATO
2005-03-04 16:02                           ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-04 16:35                             ` Matt Porter
2005-03-04 16:44                               ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-05  0:34                           ` Josh Boyer
2005-03-05  8:11                             ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-06 19:15                               ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-06 21:11                                 ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-25 19:35     ` PowerPC4xx Watchdog Takeharu KATO
2005-02-28 13:18       ` [PATCH 1/3] PowerPC4xx/E500 WatchDogTimerDriver(Core and PPC4xx part) Takeharu KATO
2005-02-28 13:20       ` PowerPC4xx Watchdog Takeharu KATO
2005-02-28 13:27       ` [PATCH 3/3] PowerPC4xx/E500 WatchDogTimerDriver(exception handler part) Takeharu KATO
2005-03-03  7:14         ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-03  7:31           ` Takeharu KATO
2005-03-03 12:07         ` Takeharu KATO

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