Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

Ar Maw, 2006-06-27 am 13:22 -0500, ysgrifennodd mi...@ac...:
> Some watchdog timers support the concept of a "pretimeout" which
> occurs some time before the real timeout.  The pretimeout can
> be delivered via an interrupt or NMI and can be used to panic
> the system when it occurs (so you get useful information instead
> of a blind reboot).

All watchdogs can do pre-timeouts in software so possibly this should
use a software fallback as well if you want good coverage ?