WatchDog

[Eduardo Esteban]

What I am trying to do is the following:


Obtain the Timeout;

Kick the OBC watchdog.

Set the OBC watchdog's timeout.

Stops the Watchdog resetting from the OBSW.

 Triggers a SW reset.



Thanks in advance,



Best regards,

Eduardo


On 15 September 2011 16:20, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:

> On 09/15/2011 06:18 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>
>> On 09/15/2011 11:25 AM, Eduardo Esteban wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody can send me an example of a watchdog? I do not understand how it
>>> works.
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>> Usually the dog barks and the thief runs away.
>>
>>  Feeling feisty this evening Sebastian? :D
>
> There are no watchdogs in the RTEMS public API.
>
> There are two types of watchdogs you see in
> RTEMS systems:
>
> + hardware watchdogs - typically reset hardware
> if you don't pet them periodically.
>
> + software watchdogs - internal RTEMS object
> used to build public services.  You should
> never use these directly.
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
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