Archive for June, 2008

AT91SAM9 Linux Watchdog

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

A driver for the AT91SAM9 watchdog timer was introduced in Linux v2.6.23.  Unfortunately, there are some "issues" with this driver that prevent it from working in all cases. Specifically, in my case, the AT91SAM9260 would not boot from the Dataflash when the watchdog faulted and caused a CPU reset.The issues and ...