[U-Boot-Users] Enabling watchdog for MPC850

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <OF6DFD6F44.4CF707FC-ON42256E4D.0027917E-08256E4D.002888F9 at mksinternal.com> you wrote:
> 
> One thing I don't understand form the watchdog driver documentation.
...
> How can you set open only mode without opening /dev/watchdog?

You cannot, as WDT_MPC8XX_OPEN_ONLY is an ioctl().

> Could anybody direct me to an example of a simple watchdog application 
> using the regular API?

	unsigned int timeout=300;	/* set watchdog timeout to 5 minutes */
	...
	write (fd, &timeout, sizeof(timeout));


Ummm.... all this has nothing to do with U-Boot and is off  topic  on
this mailing list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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