Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 03/25/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:45:24 -0700
To: "Wm. Daryl Hawkins" <dhawkins@tamu.edu>

    Wm. Daryl Hawkins wrote:
    > I've written a driver for the Intel i8xx TCO watchdog timer for both FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. This is my first driver and it's only seen limited testing, so proceed with caution! The FreeBSD-CURRENT package contains a loadable kernel module and was written to work with Poul-Henning Kamp's watchdog driver model. The FreeBSD-STABLE package contains both the loadable kernel module and a userland daemon.
    >
    > I've tested it with 4.9, 5.2.1, and CURRENT on a Supermicro P4SGE motherboard and would be grateful for any suggestions, comments, bug reports, or complaints! :)
    >
    > If there is sufficient interest (and once I've gotten some comment on the structure and inner workings of this driver), I'd also like to write a driver for the AMD-8000 series chipset. You can get the driver at: http://freebsd.tamu.edu/wdog/
    >
    > -- Daryl
    >
    >

    This is wonderful. I'd be happy to test it and shepherd it in. Does it
    support the intel 750x chips also?

    Scott
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