diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c
index 470213abfd3d..1ae03b64ef8b 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/intel-mid_wdt.c
@@ -33,14 +33,24 @@ enum {
 	SCU_WATCHDOG_KEEPALIVE,
 };
 
-static inline int wdt_command(int sub, u32 *in, int inlen)
+struct mid_wdt {
+	struct watchdog_device wd;
+	struct device *dev;
+	struct intel_scu_ipc_dev *scu;
+};
+
+static inline int
+wdt_command(struct mid_wdt *mid, int sub, const void *in, size_t inlen, size_t size)
 {
-	return intel_scu_ipc_command(IPC_WATCHDOG, sub, in, inlen, NULL, 0);
+	struct intel_scu_ipc_dev *scu = mid->scu;
+
+	return intel_scu_ipc_dev_command_with_size(scu, IPC_WATCHDOG, sub, in,
+						   inlen, size, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 static int wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wd)
 {
-	struct device *dev = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
+	struct mid_wdt *mid = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
 	int ret, in_size;
 	int timeout = wd->timeout;
 	struct ipc_wd_start {
@@ -49,38 +59,41 @@ static int wdt_start(struct watchdog_device *wd)
 	} ipc_wd_start = { timeout - MID_WDT_PRETIMEOUT, timeout };
 
 	/*
-	 * SCU expects the input size for watchdog IPC to
-	 * be based on 4 bytes
+	 * SCU expects the input size for watchdog IPC to be 2 which is the
+	 * size of the structure in dwords. SCU IPC normally takes bytes
+	 * but this is a special case where we specify size to be different
+	 * than inlen.
 	 */
 	in_size = DIV_ROUND_UP(sizeof(ipc_wd_start), 4);
 
-	ret = wdt_command(SCU_WATCHDOG_START, (u32 *)&ipc_wd_start, in_size);
+	ret = wdt_command(mid, SCU_WATCHDOG_START, &ipc_wd_start,
+			  sizeof(ipc_wd_start), in_size);
 	if (ret)
-		dev_crit(dev, "error starting watchdog: %d\n", ret);
+		dev_crit(mid->dev, "error starting watchdog: %d\n", ret);
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static int wdt_ping(struct watchdog_device *wd)
 {
-	struct device *dev = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
+	struct mid_wdt *mid = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = wdt_command(SCU_WATCHDOG_KEEPALIVE, NULL, 0);
+	ret = wdt_command(mid, SCU_WATCHDOG_KEEPALIVE, NULL, 0, 0);
 	if (ret)
-		dev_crit(dev, "Error executing keepalive: %d\n", ret);
+		dev_crit(mid->dev, "Error executing keepalive: %d\n", ret);
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static int wdt_stop(struct watchdog_device *wd)
 {
-	struct device *dev = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
+	struct mid_wdt *mid = watchdog_get_drvdata(wd);
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = wdt_command(SCU_WATCHDOG_STOP, NULL, 0);
+	ret = wdt_command(mid, SCU_WATCHDOG_STOP, NULL, 0, 0);
 	if (ret)
-		dev_crit(dev, "Error stopping watchdog: %d\n", ret);
+		dev_crit(mid->dev, "Error stopping watchdog: %d\n", ret);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -110,6 +123,7 @@ static int mid_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
 	struct watchdog_device *wdt_dev;
 	struct intel_mid_wdt_pdata *pdata = dev->platform_data;
+	struct mid_wdt *mid;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!pdata) {
@@ -123,10 +137,13 @@ static int mid_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	wdt_dev = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*wdt_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!wdt_dev)
+	mid = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*mid), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!mid)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	mid->dev = dev;
+	wdt_dev = &mid->wd;
+
 	wdt_dev->info = &mid_wdt_info;
 	wdt_dev->ops = &mid_wdt_ops;
 	wdt_dev->min_timeout = MID_WDT_TIMEOUT_MIN;
@@ -135,7 +152,7 @@ static int mid_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	wdt_dev->parent = dev;
 
 	watchdog_set_nowayout(wdt_dev, WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT);
-	watchdog_set_drvdata(wdt_dev, dev);
+	watchdog_set_drvdata(wdt_dev, mid);
 
 	ret = devm_request_irq(dev, pdata->irq, mid_wdt_irq,
 			       IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND, "watchdog",
@@ -145,6 +162,10 @@ static int mid_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	mid->scu = devm_intel_scu_ipc_dev_get(dev);
+	if (!mid->scu)
+		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
 	/*
 	 * The firmware followed by U-Boot leaves the watchdog running
 	 * with the default threshold which may vary. When we get here