TWL6032: Watchdog not starting

Nabeel Khan

Part Number: TWL6032

Hi Team,

We are unable to start the HW WD on the TWL6032, and it seems we don’t have the WD available.

Could you please advise how to enable and start it?

We have only one option to interface with the twl6032 watchdog - to read/write watchdog config register from OMAP4 console.

So, we tried to write/read different values into it. In fact, we read the same values back. But there were no other effects.

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x48 0x2c

0x20

# i2cset -f -y 1 0x48 0x2c 0x10

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x48 0x2c

0x10

# i2cset -f -y 1 0x48 0x2c 0x00

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x48 0x2c

0x01

We also checked the DEVOFF_WDT bit. It's zero.

That means no watchdog expiration happened.

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x48 0x22

0x01

We read PHOENIX_DEV_ON just in case.

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x48 0x25

0x00

We are using the driver found here: http://www.ti.com/tool/twl4030sw-linux

Please advise on what we could be missing or next steps to debug.

Thanks,

Nabeel

over 7 years ago

0 Raymundo Hernandez-Toscano over 7 years ago

TI__Intellectual 810 points

Hi Nabeel Kahn,

Watchdog enable/disable is determined by OTP so it can’t be enabled by I2C. Also, the software interaction with battery charging whether that be hardware controlled or software controlled charging, is determined by the AUTOCHARGE bit in OTP.

-Ray

0 Nabeel Khan over 7 years ago in reply to Raymundo Hernandez-Toscano

TI__Intellectual 1455 points

Hi Ray,

Can you confirm that the WD is disabled on this unit given the registers above? I don't have the full datasheet.

Thanks,
Nabeel

0 Raymundo Hernandez-Toscano over 7 years ago in reply to Nabeel Khan

TI__Intellectual 810 points

Hi Nabeel,

The registers above do not provide any indication of watchdog being disabled. Like you stated register 0x2C (Primary_Watchdog_CFG) is used to set the primary watchdog counter. By writing 0x40 to the PHOENIX_ DEV_ON register will restart the Phoenix device and writing 0x01 starts an ACT2OFF or SLP2OFF transition. Also, like you stated the DEVOFF_WD bit will indicate whether the last reset was due to a primary watchdog expiration. You would need to know what the state of the EPROM MSK_WDT bit is to determine if the WDT is disabled or enabled.

However, if you can read the state of the EPROM_REV register we can grasp a better understanding of whether the WDT is disabled or enabled based on the EPROM-Revision. Attempt the following in test mode:

# i2cget -f -y 1 0x4A 0xDF

-Ray

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