Hallo IVAN!

Antwort auf eine Message von IVAN TODOROSKI an MIKE RUSKAI:

 IT>    What exactly is a watchdog timer?

as a system which decrements a value eq. each 0.01 sec and creates an
interrupt, when the value goes to zero.

other system parts set the watchdog timer to a timeout value, whenever they
are activated.

so: when just the cli. jmp 0; loop is running, noone will reset the timer
and sometime (after the timeout value set) an interrupt is generated.

but in normal code the value is resetted continousl and so never goes to 0. 

Servus, Mario!

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