[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: implement machine restart hook
Stephen Warren
swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu Oct 25 22:51:17 EDT 2012
On 09/27/2012 10:08 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Implement the machine restart hook using the SoC's watchdog timer module.
> To support this, define a DT binding for the watchdog module, and add it
> to the device tree.
>
> The downstream rpi-split branch contains a full watchdog timer driver
> implementation, which also implements the restart hook. However, the
> restart function is largely separate from the watchdog driver, so for
> simplicity, the restart hook is implemented here directly in the main
> machine source file.
>
> Overall structure (separate setup/restart) functions derived from the
> picoxcell ARM support.
>
> Watchdog register IO sequence taken from code by Simon Arlott. Note that
> the watchdog module is not documented in BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf.
Applied to rpi's for-3.8/soc branch.
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