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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:21:10 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "Wm. Daryl Hawkins" <dhawkins@tamu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Intel i8xx watchdog driver
Message-ID:  <6.0.3.0.0.20040311202039.07469ea0@209.112.4.2>
In-Reply-To: <3D0AE03BE5EFEC4DB04D42326CA21847D0F0FB@spruce.ne.tamu.edu>
References:  <3D0AE03BE5EFEC4DB04D42326CA21847D0F0FB@spruce.ne.tamu.edu>

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Thanks, thats great news.  Perhaps even as a port would do the trick.

         ---Mike

At 08:07 PM 11/03/2004, Wm. Daryl Hawkins wrote:
>I would love to incorporate it in both source trees if possible.  Before
>it goes into current, I need to make some changes so that it will work
>with Poul-Henning Kamp's new watchdog driver model.  Hopefully, I'll get
>to work on that some tomorrow.  I'll release a new version for current
>as soon as it's ready.
>
>-- Daryl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:17 PM
>To: Wm. Daryl Hawkins
>Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver
>
>
>Wow, this is great!  I tried it out on a few RELENG_4 boxes and it works
>as expected
>
>wdog0 on motherboard
>isab0: Found Intel 82801DB watchdog device
>
>Are there any plans to incorporate this into the 5.x and 4.x source
>tree ?   This would be useful to a lot of people.
>
>         ---Mike
>
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:54:38 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hackers you
>wrote:
>
> >
> >I've written a driver and userland daemon for the Intel i8xx TCO
> >watchdog timer.  This is my first driver and it's only seen limited
> >testing, so proceed with caution!  I've tested it with 4.9 and 5.2.1 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
> >
> >
> >Daryl Hawkins
> >Network Systems
> >Texas A&M University
> >dhawkins@tamu.edu
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