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Re: Hardware Watchdog
- To: Christoph Csebits <christoph dot csebits at frequentis dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Hardware Watchdog
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:49:29 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com,"fche at redhat dot com" <fche at redhat dot com>,Doug Fraser <dfraser at photuris dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 26-Jul-2001 Christoph Csebits wrote:
> Nevertheless my watchdog is not
> software controlled. :-|
>
What happens when your watchdog fires?
Is there an exception that you can catch?
What is the watchdog time [limit]? Can you adjust it?
Fixing this may be hard. Within RedBoot, there is a notion of "idle"
routines which will be called while RedBoot waits. However, once the
GDB stubs start running, all of that stops and everything is simply
polled based on the serial port.