Comment 49 for bug 791089

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John Mason (merc68k) wrote : Re: crash after rebooting or shutting down from Ubuntu 11.04

@Alex

  Okay, yes I agree that the watchdog/timer should be reset on reboot; it seems silly that it would remain enabled after the BIOS initializes.

A config option would be fine for clean reboots, but it persists even after a hardware reset once it's been set up, so I think the best option would be either for the BIOS to reset it, or maybe there is a facility when setting up the watchdog for whether it should remain initialized after reboots (but I doubt it).