[PATCH 1/2] ep93xx: implemented watchdog timer driver for TS-72xx SBCs

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

* Alexander Clouter <alex at digriz.org.uk> [2009-12-04 11:45:07+0000]:
>
> * Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg at iki.fi> [2009-12-04 13:33:58+0200]:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:28:21AM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> > 
> > > ....and also on the TS-78XX boards.  Although my TS-7800 board is being 
> > > neglected at the moment it would be great if you could replace 
> > > everywhere you put ts72xx with ts7xxx and such.  Means when I add the 
> > > platform hooks for the TS-78xx I do not have to submit a patch that is a 
> > > rather intrusive rename/relabelling one.
> > 
> > Is the TS-7800 watchdog timer similar than the ones in TS-72xx SBCs? I couldn't
> > find any documentation about that in TS web site. If this is the case then
> > I would be more than happy to do this stuff.
> > 
> TS made the FPGA/AVR code/hardware more or less identical to retain 
> backwards compatibility.  Obviously the platform specific resource maps 
> might be a little different but that is all.  The NAND, for example, is 
> also identical on both, the TS-7800 however adds a hardware ECC and 
> option to allow DMA transfers.
> 
> The details are only really documented in the source code of a tool TS 
> provide:
> 
> http://svn.lee.org/swarm/trunk/spu/src/dillo7800/root/ts7800ctl.c
> 
Hmmmm, on closer reinspection, the AVR hides behind an I2C bus so 
probably worth forgetting the renaming suggestion.

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
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