raspberry pi BCM2708 hardware watchdog

[Andreas Schwarz]

On 21.10.13, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> On 2013-10-20, at 4:42 PM, Andreas Schwarz <freebsd.asc at strcmp.org> wrote:

>> The watchdog (bcmwd0) is found when booting, but I'm not able to use it with the 
>> watchdogd (which is using /dev/fido to communicate with the watchdog). Seems
>> that something is still missing. Any ideas?
>> 
>> root at pizelot:~ # dmesg | grep Watchdog
>> bcmwd0: <BCM2708/2835 Watchdog> mem 0x2010001c-0x20100027 on simplebus0
>> 
>> root at pizelot:~ # /etc/rc.d/watchdogd start
>> Starting watchdogd.
>> watchdogd: watchdog_patpat failed: Operation not supported
>> watchdogd: patting the dog: Operation not supported
>> /etc/rc.d/watchdogd: WARNING: failed to start watchdogd
>
> Watchdog was used for rebooting device only.  I've just committed support for 
> actual watchdog function: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256871

Rebooting is fine, thank you very much.


Regards
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