Subject: Re: PATCH: Another mpc8xx watchdog driver !!

From: Robin Gilks <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 13:03:16 +1300

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <[email-masked]> 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?

Gosh - egg on face. Got mixed up with the PIT which usually uses a 32KHz
crystal as does the RTC on the mpc860. Well, we don't have a crystal on
the PIT so that (as well as the non-existant RTC) is not available!!

This is what comes from trying to rely on memory alone with 1358 pages
of mpc866 manual :-))

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Robin Gilks
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