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Watchdog timers on AM335x boards

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== Watchdog timers on AM335x boards ==

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=== Overview of this article ===

====Timeout====

For exampleDefault timeout for AM3354's watchdog is 60 seconds, but we can change the timeout value by adding the following lines to our main function, before the ''while'' loop:

int timeout = 45;

Sitara's watchdog can't show the amount of time that's remaining before rebooting the machine.

====Environmental Monitoring====

To learn about all the characteristics available for our watchdog timer, we can use ''ioctl'' it with the following command, which will fill the watchdog_info structure with the WDT identification and its Firmware version, as well as some flags with extra information about available options:

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