Bug#1104518: linux-image-cloud-amd64: include Watchdog drivers for libvirt

From	Christian Lamparter <christian.lamparter@isd.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1104518: linux-image-cloud-amd64: include Watchdog drivers for libvirt
Date	2025-05-01 15:40 +0200
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Package: linux-image-cloud-amd64
Version: 6.1.135-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: christian.lamparter@isd.uni-stuttgart.de

Dear Maintainer,

when working with linux-image-cloud-amd64's bullseye cousin,
I noticed that the watchdog dev (/dev/watchdog) was absent
from the VM and I'm unable to use the watchdog actions.

The OpenStack wiki says that only "i6300esb" makes sense:
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtWatchdog>

"KVM has a choice of two watchdog devices, but in reality
only the PCI i6300esb device makes sense, since the alternative
is a legacy ISA bus device." (This hasn't changed since: Bug#1009350)

Looking through the provided modules files for the kernels

/usr/lib/modules/6.1.0-34-cloud-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/

the available watchdog modules are:
mei_wdt.ko, ni903x_wdt.ko, nic7018_wdt.ko, pretimeout_noop.ko, pretimeout_panic.ko
softdog.ko, watchdog.ko, wdat_wdt.ko, wdt_pci.ko, xen_wdt.ko

Please just set the I6300ESB to module in the config:

| # CONFIG_I6300ESB_WDT is not set

Best Regards,
Christian Lamparter

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.10
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-34-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/64 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages linux-image-cloud-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-6.1.0-34-cloud-amd64  6.1.135-1

linux-image-cloud-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-image-cloud-amd64 suggests no packages.

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Bug#1104518: linux-image-cloud-amd64: include Watchdog drivers for libvirt Christian Lamparter <christian.lamparter@isd.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2025-05-01 15:40 +0200
  Bug#1104518: marked as done (linux-image-cloud-amd64: include  Watchdog drivers for libvirt) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-05-13 20:00 +0200

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