Re: watchdog with P4SCI and 2.6.9 (Supermicro)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:32:03PM +0200, Olivier Kaloudoff wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> 
> 	I'm happy to say that watchdog for P4SCi is detected
> fine with my 2.6.9-freevps-1.5-1 kernel (centos 4.1 patched with freevps 
> 1.5-1)
>

Sorry to disappoint you, but check the linux-kernel archives for discussion
about supermicro motherboard and watchdog.. 

the watchdog of this motherboard is not (yet) supported by linux..

Or do the latest watchdog patches for 2.6.13/14 already support this mb?

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
 
> [root@shinwey ~]# uname -a
> Linux shinwey 2.6.9-freevps-1.5-1 #1 SMP Sun Sep 25 23:07:51 CEST 2005 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: WDT500/501-P driver 0.10 at 0x0240 
> (Interrupt 11). heartbeat=60 sec (nowayout=0)
> 
> Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: wdt: Fan Tachometer is Disabled
> Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: w83877f_wdt: cannot register miscdev on 
> minor=130 (err=-16)
> 
> Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF 
> Super I/O chip initialising.
> 
> Sep 26 10:55:18 shinwey kernel: w83627hf WDT: cannot register miscdev on 
> minor=130 (err=-16)
> 
> 
> Unfortunatelly, I set up a 4 minutes delay in the bios, the server takes 
> less than 2 minutes to boot and detect the watchdog chip, but reboot takes
> place ...
> 
> I don't get what's happening, my /dev/watchdog is existing and conform to 
> the devices.txt;
> 
> [root@shinwey Documentation]# ls -l /dev/watchdog
> crw-------  1 root root 10, 130 Sep 26  2005 /dev/watchdog
> 
> 
> Any tip ?
> 
> 
> 
> Sincere Regards,
> 
> 
> Olivier Kaloudoff
> 
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