[U-Boot] [PATCH] watchdog/imx_watchdog: do not set WCR_WDW

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Thu Mar 26 09:02:26 CET 2015


On 03/25/2015 04:53 PM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 17:45, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> with WCR_WDW set, the watchdog won't trigger if we bootet linux and idle
>> around while the watchdog is not triggered. It seems the timer makes
>> progress very slowly if at all. I managed to remain 20minutes alive
>> while the timeout was set to 60secs. It reboots within 60secs if I start
>> a busyloop in userland (something like "while (1) { }").
>>
>> While I don't see a reason why the WDT should not be running while the
>> CPU is in idle, I'm dropping this bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
>> ---
> 
> Applied to u-boot-imx, thanks !

Thanks. What just came to mind: In case you do suspend-to-mem. Would
the watchdog trigger then? I am not sure and I have no way to test…

> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic

Sebastian



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