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> (like if the system never reaches the app and the hardware watchdog timer stops being reset) Worst case scenario is if the system does come up enough for the

> (like if the system never reaches the app and the hardware watchdog timer stops being reset) Worst case scenario is if the system does come up enough for the hardware watchdog to get kicked in a timely manner, but nothing else works. The watchdog needs to be the last initialized bit of code on the system. Even so, determining when a partition is "bad" is hard.

striking 9y ago
Of course. The hardware watchdog is just one of many things that should be taken into account. I picked it as an example, specifically because a lot of people don't know such a thing exists on many embedded systems.