In message <3FFB450D.7060405 at tait.co.nz> you wrote: > > > Do you really mean RTC here??? > > Yes - the 866 and derivatives (859 etc) do NOT have a Real Time Clock > block. This means that hooking the RTC interrupt to 'kick the dog' is > rather difficult :-))
That may be the case. But the watchdog code does not use any RTC at all. > "It is based on the code of Florian Schirmer but using kernel timers (as > used by the DENX driver) rather than the RTC." Have you ever seen a MPC8xx watchdog driver that used RTC for triggering? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
