Re: ichwd and teethless watchdogd

From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer_at_omnisec.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:46:28 +0200
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2007 01:30:01 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
> Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer_at_omnisec.de> writes:
> > I thought I was sure that I checked the bios setting and wd timer was
> > set to on, but maybe after the laste BIOS update it was reset to off.
> > Problem solved, the box reboots whe sigkilling watchdogd.
>
> Interesting, if your BIOS can disable the WDT without the driver
> noticing, it must mean that it implements an SMI handler that resets (or
> perhaps stops) the WDT when it expires.  AFAIK there is no (documented)
> way to either detect or prevent this.

If you are interested in the verbose dmesg please find it here:
http://www.schmalzbauer.de/korso2/dmesg.verbose

I could give you access via serial console too, it's not in production yet.

Thanks,

-Harry
Received on Sat Aug 25 2007 - 21:46:33 UTC

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