[U-Boot] Watchdog and u-boot command prompt

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Jan 14 17:37:36 CET 2009


On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:01:43 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <200901140639.44315.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> > > It means I can't enable flags CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG & CONFIG_WATCHDOG
> > > together.
> >
> > CONFIG_WATCHDOG -> software watchdog
> > CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG -> hardware watchdog
>
> Wrong. There is no such thing as a "software watchdog" in U-Boot.
> Please see the README what CONFIG_WATCHDOG actually means.

too bad watchdog documentation is non-existent to useless.  ive asked on the 
list in the past for more info on how it works with no response.  
CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG is documented nowhere and doesnt jive with CONFIG_WATCHDOG. 
-mike
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 835 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20090114/3de83fb7/attachment.pgp 


More information about the U-Boot mailing list