Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v2 0/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

From: Fu Wei
Date: Thu May 21 2015 - 05:01:12 EST


Hi Arnd,

Great thanks for your review! :-)

On 21 May 2015 at 16:46, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2015 16:32:29 fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> This patchset:
>>
>> (1)Export "arch_timer_get_rate" in arm_arch_timer.c for the
>> other drivers, like SBSA watchdog driver
>>
>> (2)Introduce 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.
>>
>> (3)Introduce "pretimeout" into the watchdog framework, and update
>> Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt to introduce:
>> (1)the new elements in the watchdog_device and watchdog_ops struct;
>> (2)the new API "watchdog_init_timeouts".
>>
>> (4)Introduce 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.
>
> Looks all good to me, please add
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> for patches 1-6.

Great! happy to do so :-)

>
>> (5)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 needs to be reviewed by someone who understands ACPI.

yes, maybe Hanjun and Al can help :-)

>
> Arnd



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