Re: [PATCH RFC] Watchdog: sbsa_gwdt: Enhance timeout range

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu May 05 2016 - 19:36:22 EST


On 05/05/2016 11:22 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
Pratyush Anand wrote:
I think, in the long run we must have SBSA
watchdog specification improvement to keep WOR as 64 bit.

I agree with this 100%. IMHO, using a 32-bit WOR was just a bad decision.


A 32-bit counter is absolutely fine. Letting it run with a 400MHz clock
(or was it 200 MHz ?) is the problem. A resolution of 2.5ns for a watchdog
timer does not really make any sense.

Guenter