Re: timer interrupt handler in blob

[J.D. B. <ba...@th...>]

At 14:55 +0200 17-04-2002, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
>  > crap watchdog hardware on the market. If you have an option to change
>>  the hardware, consider using a better watchdog.
>
>Hehe, if you can convince me that it's not necessary I can change it, but
>you still haven't convinced me that being able to disable a watchdog is a
>good thing.

A sane watchdog is off after reset/power-on, and will only turn on at 
(the rising edge of) the first trigger pulse. If the system doesn't 
manage to produce the first trigger pulse, resetting the machine to 
run the exact same firmware usually makes little sense.

JDB.
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