Re: iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY

2016-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, David Madore wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > > Does the machine have WDAT ACPI table (see /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*)? > > If it does, you can try the new WDAT watchdog driver instead [1]. It > > still uses the same hardware, though

Re: iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY

2016-09-21 Thread David Madore
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > Does the machine have WDAT ACPI table (see /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*)? > If it does, you can try the new WDAT watchdog driver instead [1]. It > still uses the same hardware, though but via set of instructions > provided by the BIO

Re: iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY

2016-09-20 Thread Mika Westerberg
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:01:09PM +0200, David Madore wrote: > TL;DR: the iTCO_wdt watchdog on the Asus P10S-WS motherboard, instead > of rebooting the machine, places the motherboard in a completely > nonfunctional state, from which it can be revived only by a hard power > cycle. I suspect this

iTCO_wdt watchdog on Asus P10S-WS motherboard FREEZES MOTHERBOARD COMPLETELY

2016-09-08 Thread David Madore
TL;DR: the iTCO_wdt watchdog on the Asus P10S-WS motherboard, instead of rebooting the machine, places the motherboard in a completely nonfunctional state, from which it can be revived only by a hard power cycle. I suspect this is a BIOS bug: seeking advice on how/where to report this, and what to