watchdog timeout on Wandboard Quad

Michael Tuexen <[email protected]> Wed, 20 May 2026 15:56:00 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

I want to run FreeBSD current on a Wandboard Quad. I installed
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/16.0/FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20260518-ca67cfa5237f-285947.img.xz
on a SD card and also installed /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-wandboard/u-boot.imx as described
in /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-wandboard/README

FreeBSD boots fine but every two minutes the watchdog timer fire and uboot boots again.

The message is:

U-Boot SPL 2025.10 (May 03 2026 - 12:17:39 +0000)
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2025.10 (May 03 2026 - 12:17:39 +0000)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
Reset cause: WDOG
DRAM:  2 GiB
Core:  65 devices, 19 uclasses, devicetree: separate
WDT:   Started watchdog@20bc000 with servicing every 1000ms (128s timeout)
MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 4, FSL_SDHC: 1, FSL_SDHC: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... Reading from MMC(0)... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

i2c_mxc i2c@21a4000: i2c bus 1 at 0x21a4000, fail to request scl/sda gpio
auto-detected panel FWBADAPT-LCD-F07A-0102
Display: FWBADAPT-LCD-F07A-0102 (800x480)
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Board: Wandboard rev C1
Net:   eth0: ethernet@2188000

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

How can I avoid this periodic reboot?

Best regards
Michael