[PATCH] ppc64: add a watchdog driver for rtas
authorUtz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:43:34 +0000 (09:43 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:43:34 +0000 (09:43 +1000)
commit031f7edecf46d731673a5dd19ecb0de38f1a2219
treebfb58498e6c6ea8c69c7ea0abb3713fb27f86afa
parent5f5b4e669a59be1cf8fc9d6d04ff1ccad8ab6de0
[PATCH] ppc64: add a watchdog driver for rtas

Add a watchdog using the RTAS OS surveillance service. This is
provided as a simpler alternative to rtasd. The added value
is that it works with standard watchdog client programs and
can therefore also do user space monitoring.

On BPA, rtasd is not really useful because the hardware does
not have much to report with event-scan.

The driver should also work on other platforms that support
the OS surveillance rtas calls.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig
drivers/char/watchdog/Makefile
drivers/char/watchdog/wdrtas.c [new file with mode: 0644]