[PATCH v4 1/2] watchdog: NXP LPC18xx Watchdog Timer Driver

Joachim Eastwood manabian at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 15:28:42 PDT 2015


On 27 July 2015 at 07:04, Ariel D'Alessandro <ariel at vanguardiasur.com.ar> wrote:
> This commit adds support for the watchdog timer found in NXP LPC SoCs
> family, which includes LPC18xx/LPC43xx. Other SoCs in that family may
> share the same watchdog hardware.
>
> Watchdog driver registers a restart handler that will restart the system
> by performing an incorrect feed after ensuring the watchdog is enabled in
> reset mode.
>
> As watchdog cannot be disabled in hardware, driver's stop routine will
> regularly send a keepalive ping using a timer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ariel D'Alessandro <ariel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>

For the LPC18xx hardware specific parts:
Reviewed-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian at gmail.com>

regards,
Joachim Eastwood



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