tree 21b7fa9619863c970e34fc2d264769540435aa74
parent bb59b5578a73d0e0e4e208a014fa7ea0c4f0ccb4
author Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> 1196790114 +0000
committer Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> 1203354381 +0000

[WATCHDOG] HP ProLiant WatchDog driver

Hp is providing a Hardware WatchDog Timer driver that will only work with the
specific HW Timer located in the HP ProLiant iLO 2 ASIC. The iLO 2 HW Timer
will generate a Non-maskable Interrupt (NMI) 9 seconds before physically
resetting the server, by removing power, so that the event can be logged to
the HP Integrated Management Log (IML), a Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
(NVRAM). The logging of the event is performed using the HP ProLiant ROM via
an Industry Standard access known as a BIOS Service Directory Entry.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>