[PATCH v5 5/5] watchdog: aaeon: Add watchdog driver for SRG-IMX8P MCU

Thomas Perrot thomas.perrot at bootlin.com
Fri Jun 5 11:42:50 PDT 2026


Hello Guenter,

On Fri, 2026-04-10 at 08:49 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 4/8/26 10:21, Thomas Perrot (Schneider Electric) wrote:
> > Add watchdog driver for the Aaeon SRG-IMX8P embedded controller.
> > This driver provides system monitoring and recovery capabilities
> > through the MCU's watchdog timer.
> > 
> > The watchdog supports start, stop, and ping operations with a
> > maximum
> > hardware heartbeat of 25 seconds and a default timeout of 240
> > seconds.
> > 
> > snip
> > 
> 
> Odd, unusual, unnecessary, I would argue that most people would
> consider a fixed
> timeout of 240s as anything but reasonable, and as the comment says
> arbitrary.
> Since I am sure that I pointed this out before, you still insist, and
> I am
> tired of arguing: Your funeral, so
> 

I apologize for not addressing this in previous iterations.

This will be addressed in v6 to make the software timeout configurable.
The 240s value remains as the default fallback.

Kind regards,
Thomas

> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> 
> Guenter
> 
> > 
> > 

-- 
Thomas Perrot, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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