On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:17:07 +0100, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Or you can implement a LED driver or GPIO accessors (with leds-gpio) and enable LEDS_TRIGGER_HEARTBEAT. As a bonus you can control these dots from userland and/or use them as HDD access LEDs, etc. --- Atsushi Nemoto
