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watchdog: sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure
authorTakahisa Tanaka <mc74hc00@gmail.com>
Sun, 3 Mar 2013 05:52:07 +0000 (14:52 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:18:01 +0000 (12:18 -0700)
commit0e1317e914d6bae271c13d473d3e2d69ec9b7b23
treee001370a947073de8a8ecfceeb47dc2637a341b5
parent423513b224cebcf59c3ecdc698f6ee6c741e8106
watchdog: sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure

commit 18e4321276fcf083b85b788fee7cf15be29ed72a upstream.

A problem was found on PC's with the SB700 chipset: The PC fails to
load BIOS after running the 3.8.x kernel until the power is completely
cut off. It occurs in all 3.8.x versions and the mainline version as of
2/4. The issue does not occur with the 3.7.x builds.

There are two methods for accessing the watchdog registers.

 1. Re-programming a resource address obtained by allocate_resource()
to chipset.
 2. Use the direct memory-mapped IO access.

The method 1 can be used by all the chipsets (SP5100, SB7x0, SB8x0 or
later). However, experience shows that only PC with the SB8x0 (or
later) chipsets can use the method 2.

This patch removes the method 1, because the critical problem was found.
That's why the watchdog timer was able to be used on SP5100 and SB7x0
chipsets until now.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1116835
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/14/271
Signed-off-by: Takahisa Tanaka <mc74hc00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.c