Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: Add watchdog timer support for the WinSystems EBC-C384

[William Breathitt Gray]

On 01/25/2016 08:26 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> The manual for this motherboard does not provide much information about
>> the Super I/O chip (no model number, etc.), and neither sensors-detect
>> nor superiotool was able to detect it. I've sent an email to the
>> motherboard company (WinSystems) requesting further information about
>> the Super I/O chip and whether the watchdog timer is built-in to the
>> Super I/O chip.
>>
> 
> Ah, I somehow thought you were associated with WinSystems, since you know
> how to configure the chip.
> 
> Did you get any useful output from sensors-detect or superiotool
> (like 'unknown chip xxxx'), or did those tools find nothing ?

Unfortunately, the sensors-detect only reported "No" for each Super I/O  
chip test, while the superiotool gave an unhelpful "No Super I/O chip    
detected" message.                                                       
                                                                         
I haven't heard a response yet from WinSystems, but I'll give them a     
couple days before sending another email to their engineering            
department. For now, I'll submit a version 4 of this patch to get the    
minor updates I made out for review; for what its worth, I believe the   
dmi_match method will be sufficient until I get an update from           
WinSystems helping me get a proper check to identify the Super I/O chip. 
                                                                         
William Breathitt Gray