[PATCH RFC] Watchdog: sbsa_gwdt: Enhance timeout range

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Thu May 5 16:36:03 PDT 2016


On 05/05/2016 11:22 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Pratyush Anand wrote:
>> I think, in the long run we must have SBSA
>> watchdog specification improvement to keep WOR as 64 bit.
>
> I agree with this 100%.  IMHO, using a 32-bit WOR was just a bad decision.
>

A 32-bit counter is absolutely fine. Letting it run with a 400MHz clock
(or was it 200 MHz ?) is the problem. A resolution of 2.5ns for a watchdog
timer does not really make any sense.

Guenter




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