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From: fche@redhat.com
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Hardware Watchdog
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107261156.f6QBusX14487@touchme.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: 26 Jul 2001 07:56:53 -0400
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Christoph Csebits <christoph.csebits@frequentis.com> writes:

: [...]
: im having a MPC860T based board with
: an hardware watchdog on it.
: [...]
: In eCos applications i am having a
: separate thread triggering the watchdog.
: No problem.
: [...]
: What do you think about using some
: of the timer interrupts for generating
: the watchdog triggers.

Is it typical to put watchdog reset calls into separate dedicated
threads, or low-level automatically-invoked code like interrupt
handlers?  I was under the impression that watchdog resets are most
appropriately placed within the activity loops of the application code
itself -- it is their demise that the watchdog mechanism is meant to
detect.


- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-26  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-26  3:55 Christoph Csebits
2001-07-26  4:58 ` fche [this message]
2001-07-26  7:27 Doug Fraser
2001-07-26  7:51 ` Christoph Csebits
2001-07-26  8:50   ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-26  9:20     ` Christoph Csebits
2001-07-26  9:25       ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-26 11:30       ` Robin Farine
2001-07-26 23:26         ` Christoph Csebits
2001-07-26 23:57           ` Robin Farine
2001-07-27  1:28             ` Christoph Csebits
2001-07-27  1:50               ` Robin Farine
2001-07-26 10:02 Doug Fraser
2001-07-26 10:13 ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-26 13:21 Doug Fraser

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