Watchdog device driver

[Neil Mayes]

Yes it's a trivial device driver just seems to be the correct way to do
it for ease of portability for standard embedded equipment.

Thanks,
Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com] 
> Sent: 21 May 2008 14:20
> To: Neil Mayes
> Cc: rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: Re: Watchdog device driver
> 
> Neil Mayes wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was surprised to see we don't have a watchdog device driver as 
> > standard for RTEMS. For the implementations we are 
> considering it will 
> > be nice to have a watchdog device driver for the platforms we are 
> > using
> > (ERC32 & PowerPC). As an embedded OS I would have thought 
> it could be 
> > a standard device? I am just wondering if anyone else has 
> done this or 
> > thought about this issue?
> >   
> I guess it is such a simple device that no one has proposed 
> anything like an API.
> 
> I would not be opposed to an API for a watchdog timer.  I 
> don't see much of an API though since there isn't that much 
> functionality. 
> 
> + enable with expiration
> + reset
> + disable
> + is enabled?
> 
> But a standard API, no matter how simple encourages portability.
> 
> --joel
> > Regards,
> > Neil
> >
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