On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:06:31PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:

Matt,

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quoted

What do you see as the advantage to having a watchdog driver
 that uses the booke hardware watchdog facility over a generic
 timebase driven driver?

I would think the watchdog would be useful in cases that the normal 
decrementer exceptions gets disabled when MSR[EE] = 0.

That's the only thing I can think of.  I guess my question then
is whether people think this is important enough in practice
to have the hardware watchdog as an alternative. My guess is yes,
but I don't have a strong opinion. 

-Matt