From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263522AbTLEFFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:05:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263853AbTLEFFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:05:36 -0500 Received: from stinkfoot.org ([65.75.25.34]:27264 "EHLO stinkfoot.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263522AbTLEFFc (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:05:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD012C4.3060206@stinkfoot.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:08:20 -0500 From: Ethan Weinstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: w83627hf watchdog References: <3FCF87C4.2010301@stinkfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <3FCF87C4.2010301@stinkfoot.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ethan Weinstein wrote: > My Supermicro X5DPL-iGM-O has a winbond w83627hf chip onboard that > includes a watchdog timer. I found a driver on freshmeat that points > here: http://www.freestone.net/soft/pkg/w83627hf-wdt.tar.gz > but this does not seem to work correctly on 2.4.23, even with my > modifications to the ioports and registers that Supermicro sent me. I > have tried to contact the developer, he hasn't responded. I also > located a post to linux-kerel quite sometime ago: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Dec/att-4150/w83627hf_wdt.c Thought I'd mention that the above mentioned driver apparently works quite well with the w83627hf, I've run some preliminary tests simulating lockups, and the box reboots according to the timer setttings. Ethan