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

Jeremy Jackson jerj at coplanar.net
Sat Apr 19 05:27:12 CEST 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 04:16 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> > Obviously this logic does not apply to standalone nodes :-) (well,not
> > completely: for standalone, don't clear the timer until you hit
> > runlevel 3 or equivalant)
> >   
> 
> I beg to differ. What happens if the user wants to run an OS which will
> not reset the timer? Think Windows, think installation/live CD.
> 
> We already have USE_WATCHDOG_ON_BOOT in v2 and we could use that config
> var in v3.

What about making that per-payload?

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