Hi Harald, > Unfortunately it simply doesn't work. When I originally implemented a > via_wdt driver some years ago, I couldn't start the watchdog no matter > how hard I tried. My inquiries into VIA at that point didn't provide > any response either. In fact, I even feared that nobody might ever have > used that watchdog hardware before ;) > > I can ask again, but I'm not sure if it will be any different at that > time.. Could you please ask again? It could indeed be that they lock registers. (It could be something similar to some of the superIO chipsets that can enable/disable (lock/unlock) access to registers). The BIOS can at least start the hardware, so the hardware does work :-) Note: I saw your disclaimer and I thus have no high hopes :-). Thanks in advance, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html