On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:51:45PM -0500, Kevin Hickey wrote: > Blinks the dots on the hex display on the DB1300 board every 1000 timer ticks. > This can help tell the difference between a soft and hard hung board. How about putting this into a software timer. The Malta does that for its ASCII display, see arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-display.c. Ralf