13:07 <Hammdist> trying to get started with watchdog on rpi5. is there any maximum for the value of RebootWatchdogSec on raspberry pi 5? also how do I arrange with systemd that I will tickle the watchdog from cli, e.g., by periodically running a keep-alive command over ssh?

13:14 <Hammdist> sounds like it might be best to write a Cprogram that directly interacts with the watchdog device .. ugh

13:21 <Hammdist> actually I already wrote a Goprogram for watchdog device interaction a while back and thanks to git I was able to find it again. hurrah

13:50 <Hammdist> supposing I set bcm2835_wdt.nowayout=1 as a kernel argument. then I open the watchdog and fail to feed it for a while. reset. does the watchdog timer get disabled on reset or do I have only a limited time to boot and feed it again? the latter would seem to be implied by the systemd way to do things but is it the default?

13:55 <Hammdist> maybe the RebootWatchdogSec parameter is for a software reset not a hardware-induced watchdog reset, which would supposedly clear the watchdog out

15:02 <clever> Hammdist: i think the watchdog is reset by the reset of the soc

15:52 <Hammdist> some docs indicate that the bootloader may (optionally?) enable the watchdog so that boot failure can be recovered from

18:33 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ⤴️ **Pull request** to [armbian/documentation](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation>) by [EvilOlaf](<https://github.com/EvilOlaf>) - **Please review!** 👉 [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation/pull/598>): *remove etcher from recommendations*

18:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> @werner I like this change

19:20 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/895b8fcc77fcbeb16ad17e25644f74a0ee7f675d>): *BananaPI BPI-F3: `Pull branch instead of commit`*

19:21 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/53832cf54ae208f5ae23d0b0fb884c4af54b26ff>): *use RK3568 phy fix from mailing list*

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19:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/6cca6d421e4f57f203ba3fcc86eb7a471451298d>): *add KERNEL_TEST_TARGET=current to hinlink h6xk boards*

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19:25 <Hammdist> what is the alternative to etcher? can usbimager write to sd cards?

19:26 <Hammdist> ah I just read the commit it is implied that it can though it's own docs do not make this clear

19:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/documentation](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation/commit/2fd67aa85f3f5b374f05fd080a6a5553f943d415>): *remove etcher from recommendations*

19:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> hammdist: yeah https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#preparing-sd-card

20:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <vennstone> +

20:38 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> hammdist: USBImager can write to *any* drive

20:49 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/f8e1b443f17bd59aabe186bcba5c41e39169d121>): *3rd party wifi: partially revert rtl8811cu driver as it breaks on K6.6*

20:54 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/12046a044a69b1f6cf2cf05bf7797d320372e170>): *Macchiatobin: move board to eos so we don't build this family kernel anymore*

23:06 <Herc> Hammdist, rpi-imager works well here (I'm using it for years for Armbian images)

23:07 <Herc> it expands .xz on the fly btw