GEODE CS5535/CS5536 Watchdog Timer question

Kushal Koolwal kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 24 12:13:27 EDT 2008


Thank you guys for sending the links.

As it turns out that I am using a General Software BIOS. Will see if any of the solutions as discussed in those links for me.

Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/



> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:36:38 +0800
> From: punkytse at gmail.com
> To: ilp at lkml.darkvoyage.org.uk
> Subject: Re: GEODE CS5535/CS5536 Watchdog Timer question
> CC: kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com; linux-geode at bombadil.infradead.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you are using 0.99 bios and latest kernel,  you need to turn off
> WORKAROUND in tinyBIOS
> 
> See this thread as well,
> 
> http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2008-January/001851.html
> 
> - Punky
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Iain Paton <ilp at lkml.darkvoyage.org.uk> wrote:
> > Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> >> Perhaps for now I got my partial answer:
> >>
> >> Enabling CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER causes a system hang during boot.
> >
> > Good discussion of these issues in the thread at:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120050717608600&w=2
> >
> > FWIW, I have both enabled, no hangs on boot and a working watchdog.
> >
> > Iain
> >
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