[U-Boot-Users] Watchdog timer reset

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <9b7ca657050512050554c9e1dd at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I'd really appreciate it if you could point me to a file or a function
> to take a look.

watchdog_reset() for example?

Try running something like

	$ cd u-boot
	$ find * -type f | xargs egrep watchdog
or	$ find * -type f | xargs egrep watchdog_reset

> :P sorry for trying an easy way out, but if you happen to know good
> place to start, dont hesitate (please) :)

See above - this is obviosly  hardware  dependent,  but  looking  for
watchdog_reset() in cpu/*/cpu.c might be helpful...

> Okay, its basically using alarm() to produce SIGALRM every 10 seconds.
> (assuming alarm() takes second as an argument) And using signal() we
> are calling runme() function everytime it is woken up by SIGALRM.
> Natually, runme() will do whatever it needs to do, and sets another
> alarm before it ends. Not shown in the code, is probably a block read
> so it keeps the program running.
> Hopefully this makes more sense than a code :P

No, it does not. As mentioned before, there are no signals  or  tasks
or  similar in U-Boot. Everything is strictly single-tasking. I'm not
sure waht you want, but you can problaby do something like 

	for  (;;) {
		/* do something */
		usleep (10 * CFG_HZ);
	}

in C, but I don't understand what that would give you.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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