[systemd-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] manager: add a global watchdog reboot timestamp

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 01.02.12 19:24, Chris Paulson-Ellis (chris at edesix.com) wrote:

> 
> On 01/02/12 19:05, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >(As I figured out newer Intel chipsets all have watchdogs now, so I am
> >actually quite keen to see this implemented in systemd now, since I can
> >actually test it.)
> 
> Just a warning to anyone who's thinking of depending on the chipset
> watchdog... In my experience, many boards are not correctly wired up
> to reset properly when the chipset watchdog fires. Although it works
> most of the time, I've had boards hang under testing using the
> iTCO_wdt watchdog driver. I expect the chipset & processor reset
> fine, but the rest of the board doesn't. On boards like these I use
> the softdog driver instead as Linux rarely hangs so badly that it
> can't run the emergency restart code. We're developing external
> watchdog hardware to allow us to continue to use these cheap PC
> boards with confidence.

In systemd we will not make use of the watchdog unless enabled in the
configuration and it will default to off.

Lennart

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