Iβve just finished writing a watchdog driver for the MediaTek MT7622 SoC (used on boards like Banana Pi R64) for FreeBSD!
This driver implements the watchdog support so that systems based on MT7622 can reliably use the watchdog subsystem to monitor and recover from hangs or lockups β a core part of making embedded platforms stable under FreeBSD.
The MT7622 is the ARM networking SoC on the R64 board with 5Γ Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and more. Getting low-level hardware support like this working is a big step toward usable FreeBSD support on this hardware.
π₯ Want to help test it?
If youβre running FreeBSD on MT7622-based boards (like Banana Pi R64) β please give the new watchdog driver a spin and share feedback, bugs or test results!