Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH 0/6] Watchdog: introdouce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 10:08:32 EST


On Friday 15 May 2015 19:08:04 fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patchset:
>
> (1)Introdouces Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sbsa-gwdt.txt
> for FDT info of SBSA Generic Watchdog, and give two examples of
> adding SBSA Generic Watchdog device node into the dts files:
> foundation-v8.dts and amd-seattle-soc.dtsi
>
> (2)Introdouce "pretimeout" into the watchdog framework
>
> (3)Introdouces ARM SBSA watchdog driver
> a.Use linux kernel watchdog framework
> b.Work with FDT on ARM64
> c.Use "pretimeout" in watchdog framework
> d.In first timeout(WS0), do panic to save system context
> e.Support geting timeout and pretimeout from
> parameter and FDT at the driver init stage
>
> (4)Parse SBSA Generic Watchdog Structure in GTDT table of ACPI,
> and create a platform device with that information
> This platform device can be used by This Watchdog driver
>
> This patchset has been tested with watchdog daemon
> (ACPI/FDT, module/build-in) on the following platforms:
> (1)ARM Foundation v8 model
> (2)AMD Seattle B0
>
>

I've had a few very minor comments to the individual patches, otherwise
looks good. I have not reviewed the ACPI part of the series, as I have
no knowledge of that.

Arnd
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/