Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 20:27 +0100, Helmut Pozimski wrote: > Am 20.11.2012 22:43, schrieb Ian Campbell: > Hi Ian, > > > Helmut, if you could confirm this works for you that would be > > great since I'd like to get a version of this fix into Wheezy if > > possible. > > just built and installed the

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-21 Thread Helmut Pozimski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 20.11.2012 22:43, schrieb Ian Campbell: Hi Ian, > Helmut, if you could confirm this works for you that would be > great since I'd like to get a version of this fix into Wheezy if > possible. just built and installed the package on my system and I

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 13:49 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'm going to investigate adding the watchdog disablement as an > initramfs hook, doing it after mounting the rootfs but before > switching to it. This seems to work and I have uploaded 0.4.2+svn-r40-2 to sid including this fix. Helmut, if

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:01 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > (Hmm, debian/init.d is currently run when the system has finished > booting; this may be too late to turn off the watchdog, e.g. if fsck > is running.) Actually it turns out that even an initscript which runs early cannot run early enoug

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 10:25 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [2012-11-15 19:31]: > > I'm not entirely sure since I don't have such a device, but I believe > > the PIC itself is programmed so the watchdog is on unless you disable > > it. > > Yes, it's on by default. > > Also, t

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2012-11-15 19:31]: > I'm not entirely sure since I don't have such a device, but I believe > the PIC itself is programmed so the watchdog is on unless you disable > it. Yes, it's on by default. Also, there's currently no PIC control to keep the PIC watchdog alive. You _have_

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Helmut Pozimski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 15.11.2012 20:31, schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > * Ian Campbell [2012-11-15 19:06]: >> Or is it the case that the factory provided *firmware* starts >> the watchdog and therefore expects that the kernel and/or >> userspace needs to keep poking it? >

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ian Campbell [2012-11-15 19:06]: > Or is it the case that the factory provided *firmware* starts the > watchdog and therefore expects that the kernel and/or userspace needs to > keep poking it? I'm not entirely sure since I don't have such a device, but I believe the PIC itself is programmed so

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:29 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > In addition to Helmut's patch (thanks!), we'll have to modify > > debian/udeb/debian-installer-startup.d/S99qcontrol > > and debian/init.d to disable the watchdog. > > Yes. On second thoughts I'm not sure about the second one. What a

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:01 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > QNAP has confirmed that this is the right command to disable the > watchdog and that it's safe to send 0x67 to the PIC on older devices > (simply nothing will happen). Great, thanks for confirming this! > In addition to Helmut's patch (

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
QNAP has confirmed that this is the right command to disable the watchdog and that it's safe to send 0x67 to the PIC on older devices (simply nothing will happen). In addition to Helmut's patch (thanks!), we'll have to modify debian/udeb/debian-installer-startup.d/S99qcontrol and debian/init.d to

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 09:56 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Ian, please wait a bit before applying this patch. I've asked QNAP to > comment and they are looking into it. Ack. Thanks! Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Taint - Mass Appeal Sadness (Live) Life can be so tragic -- you're here to

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Ian, please wait a bit before applying this patch. I've asked QNAP to comment and they are looking into it. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Bug#693263: Please add support for disabling the PIC watchdog on TS-219p II

2012-11-14 Thread Helmut Pozimski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: qcontrol Version: 0.4.2+svn-r40-1 Serverity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, recently I bought a new Qnap device (TS-219p II, the one with the USB 3.0 ports) and tried to install Debian on it. (also see the thread [1] on the debian-arm mailing l