How exactly did you go about enabling the Super-IO watchdog on your MSI board? This is an MSI A320M that I'm trying to make work here On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 15:37 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:58:07PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote: > > Hi! I'm the one from the Fedora bugzilla who said they'd help review these > > patches. I might end up responding to this with a real review comment > > after > > this message, but first: > > > > mind cc'ing me future versions of this patchset and also, is there any way > > you > > Sure. > > > know of that one could figure out whether or not the sp5100_tco wdt is > > actually disabled by the OEM on a board? I tried testing these patches > > with my > > That is what the code is trying to do today. > > > system and it appears to be convinced that it's disabled on my system, but > > I'm > > hoping something in this patch is just broken… > > > > I tested the driver on three different boards. MSI B350M MORTAR, > MSI B350 TOMAHAWK, and Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming 3. CPU is Ryzen 1700X > on all boards. > > On the MSI boards, the watchdog is reported as disabled. Enabling it > and letting it expire does not have an effect. I am using the Super-IO > watchdog instead on those boards (and it works). > > On the Gigabyte board, the watchdog is reported as enabled, and it works > (and the watchdog on the Super-IO chips does not work). > > Feel free to play with the driver. Maybe there is a means to enable the > watchdog if it is disabled. Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out how > to do it, so I thought it is better to report the fact and not instantiate > the watchdog if it doesn't work. > > Hope this helps, > Guenter -- Cheers, Lyude Paul -- 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
