[coreboot] [PATCH] Halt TCO timer on Intel 3100 chipset

[Stefan Reinauer]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> your quoting seems to be messed up somehow.
>
> On 16.04.2008 17:21, joe at settoplinux.org wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 01:13 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> True, but it's not very easy to regularly poke the timer without an
>>> interrupt - or the code will be full of try_poke() every other line.
>>>     
>>>       
>> What about the mostly existing code that pokes port 0x80?  make it a
>> macro that also pokes the WDT?
>>
>> If there are "long" sections for a single POST code, (like clearing 4GB
>> ECC ram), having a bit toggling would be less boring to watch anyhow.
>>     

> Please avoid any POST code toggling. There are POST boards out there
> which display the last n POST codes and make it a lot easier to follow
> the code path. Once you add POST code toggling, that history is flushed
> away really fast.

Full ack. In addition, showing post codes and triggering a watchdog are
two fundamentally different things. I think we should not let the one
implicitly do the other.

Stefan