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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 5/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
On 06/09/2015 11:22 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>
> but I see your point. Essentially, the specification is broken
> for all practical purposes, since, as you point out, enabling
> the watchdog overwrites and explicitly sets WCV. Effectively
> this means that just using WCV to program the timeout period
> is not really possible.
>
> I am not really sure how to address this. We can either only use WOR,
> and forget about pretimeout, or we can enforce a minimum pretimeout.
> In the latter case, we'll have to write WCV after writing WOR.

In talking with our hardware engineers, using WCV to program the timeout
period is not a valid operation. This is why I keep arguing against the
pre-timeout feature, and I don't agree that servers should always use
pre-timeout.

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