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authorYunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700
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+Last reviewed: 10/05/2007
+
+ Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card
+ Support for ISA Cards Revision A and C
+ Documentation and Driver by Ken Hollis <kenji@bitgate.com>
+
+ The PC Watchdog is a card that offers the same type of functionality that
+ the WDT card does, only it doesn't require an IRQ to run. Furthermore,
+ the Revision C card allows you to monitor any IO Port to automatically
+ trigger the card into being reset. This way you can make the card
+ monitor hard drive status, or anything else you need.
+
+ The Watchdog Driver has one basic role: to talk to the card and send
+ signals to it so it doesn't reset your computer ... at least during
+ normal operation.
+
+ The Watchdog Driver will automatically find your watchdog card, and will
+ attach a running driver for use with that card. After the watchdog
+ drivers have initialized, you can then talk to the card using a PC
+ Watchdog program.
+
+ I suggest putting a "watchdog -d" before the beginning of an fsck, and
+ a "watchdog -e -t 1" immediately after the end of an fsck. (Remember
+ to run the program with an "&" to run it in the background!)
+
+ If you want to write a program to be compatible with the PC Watchdog
+ driver, simply use of modify the watchdog test program:
+ Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+
+
+ Other IOCTL functions include:
+
+ WDIOC_GETSUPPORT
+ This returns the support of the card itself. This
+ returns in structure "PCWDS" which returns:
+ options = WDIOS_TEMPPANIC
+ (This card supports temperature)
+ firmware_version = xxxx
+ (Firmware version of the card)
+
+ WDIOC_GETSTATUS
+ This returns the status of the card, with the bits of
+ WDIOF_* bitwise-anded into the value. (The comments
+ are in linux/pcwd.h)
+
+ WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS
+ This returns the status of the card that was reported
+ at bootup.
+
+ WDIOC_GETTEMP
+ This returns the temperature of the card. (You can also
+ read /dev/watchdog, which gives a temperature update
+ every second.)
+
+ WDIOC_SETOPTIONS
+ This lets you set the options of the card. You can either
+ enable or disable the card this way.
+
+ WDIOC_KEEPALIVE
+ This pings the card to tell it not to reset your computer.
+
+ And that's all she wrote!
+
+ -- Ken Hollis
+ (kenji@bitgate.com)
+