[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>
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
index 591e3f3..254d115 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
@@ -402,6 +402,18 @@
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called it8712f_wdt.
+config HP_WATCHDOG
+ tristate "HP Proliant iLO 2 Hardware Watchdog Timer"
+ depends on X86
+ help
+ A software monitoring watchdog and NMI sourcing driver. This driver
+ will detect lockups and provide stack trace. Also, when an NMI
+ occurs this driver will make the necessary BIOS calls to log
+ the cause of the NMI. This is a driver that will only load on a
+ HP ProLiant system with a minimum of iLO2 support.
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called hpwdt.
+
config SC1200_WDT
tristate "National Semiconductor PC87307/PC97307 (ala SC1200) Watchdog"
depends on X86