Dear Heinrich Schuchardt, In message <ceeb82b7-eef0-7435-0d0c-958c0bf07...@gmx.de> you wrote: > > > Any so-called "watchdog" that can be disabled / switched off by > > software is not really woth this name. As such, the concept of > > disabling a watchdog in software, is misleading at best and should > > never ibe implemented. > > If we want to boot UEFI payloads, we will have to follow the UEFI > specification even if we think it is not perfect.
That's perfectly OK. But if the OS expects that the watchdog is disabled, then we should not enable it in U-Boot in the first place. Keep in ind that any real watchdog (which is worth the money and the name) _cannot_ be disabled by software once it was started. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Q: Do you know what the death rate around here is? A: One per person.
