Comment # 25 on bug 1042933 from Borislav Petkov

(In reply to Jerry Hoemann from comment #24)
> In your example, by setting the timeout to 10 seconds, and updating only
> every 5 seconds, the system should get an NMI sent to it 1 second after your
> app pings the timer.  (the driver implicitly pings once when starting the
> timer.)

Let me see if I undertstand this correctly:

When one programs 10 sec into the watchdog, it will send an NMI after 10
- 9 = 1 seconds due to the pretimeout thing.

So in order for the test not to panic the box, one either has to program
a timeout T + 9 or disable ASR (if that's even possible).

Yes?