[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: implement machine restart hook

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Sep 28 10:57:20 EDT 2012


On 09/28/2012 04:31 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 22:08 Thu 27 Sep     , 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.

>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/brcm,bcm2835-pm-wdog.txt

>> +Example:
>> +
>> +intc: interrupt-controller {
>> +	compatible = "brcm,bcm2835-pm-wdog";
>
> it's seems everyone use -wdt

That is true. "-wdog" is what was in the downstream patch, but I guess
it makes sense to fix it up to be consistent with everything already in
the kernel.




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