[ixp1200] IXP 1200 reset.

Scott Karlin scott at CS.Princeton.EDU
Thu Jul 31 13:12:44 EDT 2003


It's a known bug that you cannot reliably reset the IXP1200
in software.  We hang a switch (or remotely controlled relay)
off of the reset pins of the board.

Scott


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Kameswara Avasarala wrote:
> Hi,
>        Is there anyway by which we can reset the IXP from the host ? 
> Since the IXP CSR is accessible from the host  I tried the following
> 1) Wrote  0xFFFFFFFF into the IXP1200_RESET register
> 2)Enabled Timer 4 (watchdog) and zeroed (atleast I thought I did) out 
> the timer from the host.
> Writing into the IXP1200_RESET register does not work even from the SA 
> itself whereas the watchdog works.
> Thanks,
> Kamesh.



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