Watchdog on STG-212 (OX820)

I'd like to use a watchdog on my MEDION P89626 but cannot find a device in /dev.
There is a reference to a watchdog device in ox820-stg212.dtb.
Can this be accessed by a watchdog service or should I compile a software watchdog into the kernel?

regards
kralan

kralan Wrote:
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> I'd like to use a watchdog on my MEDION P89626 but
> cannot find a device in /dev.
> There is a reference to a watchdog device in
> ox820-stg212.dtb.
> Can this be accessed by a watchdog service or
> should I compile a software watchdog into the
> kernel?
>
> regards
> kralan

I don't think we have hardware watchdog (or know how to turn it on if there were). So SW watchdog is what you want if needed.

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Yes, I will go for the software watchdog.

Here is what I found out about the hardware watchdog for reference:

The device tree in ox820-stg212.dtb references a mpcore_wdt device:

        watchdog@47000620 {
                compatible = "mpcore_wdt";
                reg = <0x47000620 0x20>;
                interrupts = <0x1 0xe 0x304>;
                clocks = <0x8>;
        };

but there is no corresponding driver in the kernel (anymore).
It would seem it got removed in Linux 3.11