diff --git a/openpower/patches/vesnin-patches/hostboot/hostboot-0001-Increase-default-watchdog-timeout-to-300-seconds.patch b/openpower/patches/vesnin-patches/hostboot/hostboot-0001-Increase-default-watchdog-timeout-to-300-seconds.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1d816a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openpower/patches/vesnin-patches/hostboot/hostboot-0001-Increase-default-watchdog-timeout-to-300-seconds.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From a4259b9799ebb0f31223d52def871f4851217315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Artem Senichev <a.senichev@yadro.com>
+Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:50:56 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Increase default watchdog timeout to 300 seconds
+
+We need more than 2 minutes to go through some IPL, for instance
+step "13.10 mss_draminit_trainadv" tooks 215 seconds to initialize 8 TiB RAM.
+
+Signed-off-by: Artem Senichev <a.senichev@yadro.com>
+---
+ src/include/usr/ipmi/ipmiwatchdog.H | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/include/usr/ipmi/ipmiwatchdog.H b/src/include/usr/ipmi/ipmiwatchdog.H
+index d730e6bc4..37f73624b 100644
+--- a/src/include/usr/ipmi/ipmiwatchdog.H
++++ b/src/include/usr/ipmi/ipmiwatchdog.H
+@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ namespace IPMIWATCHDOG
+ #ifdef CONFIG_BMC_IPMI_LONG_WATCHDOG
+ const uint16_t  DEFAULT_WATCHDOG_COUNTDOWN = 2400;
+ #else
+-const uint16_t  DEFAULT_WATCHDOG_COUNTDOWN = 120;
++const uint16_t  DEFAULT_WATCHDOG_COUNTDOWN = 300;
+ #endif
+ 
+ /**
+-- 
+2.14.1
+