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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
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Hi, Guenter,



On 25 May 2015 at 01:32, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 05/24/2015 10:19 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
>>
>> Fu Wei wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know why you want to do this tricky way. you can always
>>> register the interrupt handler,
>>> if pre-timeout is 0, system will just trigger WS1 right after WS0
>>
>>
>> But that only works if the pre-timeout and timeout can be programmed to
>> separate values. And as Guenter says, the SBSA may not guarantee that.
>>
>
> The pseudo-code in the specification suggests that if WCV is configured,
> WS0 = WCV
> WS1 = WCV + WOR
>
> Assuming that the implementation follows the pseudo-code in the
> specification,
> we would have separately programmable values. Since the pretimeout (per ABI)
> is the difference in seconds to the timeout, and not an absolute value,
> we would have to program the registers as follows.
>
> WCV = timeout - pretimeout;
> WOR = pretimeout;

yes, this patchset is doing this way.

>
> Does this make sense ?
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>



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