Re: [11/12] watchdog: sp5100-tco: Abort if watchdog is disabled by hardware

[Gabriel C]

On 10.01.2018 00:37, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:58:07PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > Hi! I'm the one from the Fedora bugzilla who said they'd help review these
> > patches. I might end up responding to this with a real review comment after
> > this message, but first:
> >
> > mind cc'ing me future versions of this patchset and also, is there any way you
>
> Sure.
>
> > know of that one could figure out whether or not the sp5100_tco wdt is
> > actually disabled by the OEM on a board? I tried testing these patches with my
>
> That is what the code is trying to do today.
>
> > system and it appears to be convinced that it's disabled on my system, but I'm
> > hoping something in this patch is just brokenâ
>
> I tested the driver on three different boards. MSI B350M MORTAR,
> MSI B350 TOMAHAWK, and Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming 3. CPU is Ryzen 1700X
> on all boards.
>
> On the MSI boards, the watchdog is reported as disabled. Enabling it
> and letting it expire does not have an effect. I am using the Super-IO
> watchdog instead on those boards (and it works).
>
> On the Gigabyte board, the watchdog is reported as enabled, and it works
> (and the watchdog on the Super-IO chips does not work).
>
> Feel free to play with the driver. Maybe there is a means to enable the
> watchdog if it is disabled. Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out how
> to do it, so I thought it is better to report the fact and not instantiate
> the watchdog if it doesn't work.

I haven an Supemricro H11DSi-NT with EPYCs CPUs..
I can set the watchdog ON/OFF in BIOS and also set in to reset or NMI
with the moatherboard jumpers.

If you want I can give whatever patches for this driver an try ,
just let me know.

Regards,

Gabriel C