svn commit: r211908 - head/sys/dev/ichwd

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, August 30, 2010 5:53:43 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 30/08/2010 20:18 Mike Tancsa said the following:
> > At 12:51 PM 8/30/2010, Olivier Smedts wrote:
> > 
> >> By any chance, is it disabled in BIOS ?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > There are a couple of options in the BIOS. There is a "reboot the box if the
> > bios does not post within 6min" as well as "Fire the watchdog if the dog has not
> > been patted after 5,10 or 15min after the BIOS post.   I tried all combinations
> > without luck. If I have the "reboot after x min post post", the box will reboot
> > on its own.
> 
> I'd guess that this kind of option would enable OS use of the watchdog.
> Perhaps you can contact Intel about this issue, either via their official
> support service or via jfv (who is CCed as I see) or both.

Most likely these options are for the watchdog in the BMC that IPMI manages
rather than the watchdog in the ICH.

-- 
John Baldwin