tristate "IT87 Watchdog Timer"
depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
---help---
- This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the ITE IT8716,
- IT8718, IT8726, IT8712(Version J,K) Super I/O chips. This watchdog
- simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't freeze, and if
- it does, it reboots your computer after a certain amount of time.
+ This is the driver for the hardware watchdog on the ITE IT8702,
+ IT8712, IT8716, IT8718, IT8720, IT8726, IT8712 Super I/O chips.
+ This watchdog simply watches your kernel to make sure it doesn't
+ freeze, and if it does, it reboots your computer after a certain
+ amount of time.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called it87_wdt.
the Warp platform.
config BOOKE_WDT
- bool "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer"
+ tristate "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer"
depends on BOOKE || 4xx
---help---
+ Watchdog driver for PowerPC Book-E chips, such as the Freescale
+ MPC85xx SOCs and the IBM PowerPC 440.
+
Please see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt for
more information.
+config BOOKE_WDT_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+ int "PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Timer Default Timeout"
+ depends on BOOKE_WDT
+ default 38 if FSL_BOOKE
+ range 0 63 if FSL_BOOKE
+ default 3 if !FSL_BOOKE
+ range 0 3 if !FSL_BOOKE
+ help
+ Select the default watchdog timer period to be used by the PowerPC
+ Book-E watchdog driver. A watchdog "event" occurs when the bit
+ position represented by this number transitions from zero to one.
+
+ For Freescale Book-E processors, this is a number between 0 and 63.
+ For other Book-E processors, this is a number between 0 and 3.
+
+ The value can be overidden by the wdt_period command-line parameter.
+
# PPC64 Architecture
config WATCHDOG_RTAS