Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: dw_wdt: pat the watchdog before enabling it

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Mon Jan 26 2015 - 22:47:25 EST


Dear Doug,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:01:37 -0800
Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jisheng,
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Specifically I see the register WDT_TORR that has an offset of 0x4.
> >> That's the RANGE_REG in your code. It shows bits 3:0 set the timeout
> >> period (0 = 0xffff and 15 = 0x7fffffff). It shows bits 31:4 as
> >> "reserved".
> >
> > Could you please dump registers' value at offset 0xf4 and 0xf8 if you
> > don't mind?
>
> Those are not documented in the user manual that I have, but:
>
> >>> r(0xff8000f4)
> 0x10000a02
> >>> r(0xff8000f8)
> 0x3130332a

Thanks. Now I got some information about your platform:

wdt version: v1.02a

WDT_DUAL_TOP is configured as false, so there's no TOP_INIT
WDT_DFLT_TOP is configured as 0, so it will timeout soon.

However, it doesn't hurt anything if we have an extra pat before
enabling WDT

Thanks,
Jisheng
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