Re: IPMI smbus and Intel 6300ESB Watchdog drivers

[David Härdeman]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Peter Lundkvist wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:44:01PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
> > 1) On the mainboard is a 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (pci id 8086:25ab), but 
> > there seems to be no driver available for it. Does anyone know if there 
> > is any such driver in progress or if I've misunderstood the situation?
>
> You can use the other watchdog in this chip, the TCO timer. The
> driver needs a patch to work with 6300ESB.
>
> Peter
>
>
> --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c.org	2005-01-30 21:45:39.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c	2005-01-30 21:53:21.000000000 +0100
> @@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
> 	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801DB_0,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> 	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801E_0,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> 	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82801EB_0,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> +	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ESB_1,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, },
> 	{ 0, },			/* End of list */
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, i8xx_tco_pci_tbl);

Thanks, that worked like a charm.

I hope the maintainer for the bk-watchdog tree can pick up and integrate 
the patch so it finds its way to the kernel mainline.

Regards,
David

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