NAME¶
viawd —
device driver for VIA south bridge watchdog
timer
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel
configuration file:
device viawd
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
viawd driver provides
watchdog(4) support for the watchdog interrupt
timer present on VIA south bridge chipset (VT8251, CX700, VX800, VX855,
VX900).
The VIA south bridge have a built-in watchdog timer, which can be enabled and
disabled by user's program and set between 1 to 1023 seconds.
The
viawd driver when unloaded with running
watchdog will reschedule the watchdog to 5 minutes.
SEE ALSO¶
watchdog(4),
watchdog(8),
watchdogd(8),
watchdog(9)
HISTORY¶
The
viawd driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 10.0.
AUTHORS¶
The
viawd driver and this manual page were
written by
Fabien Thomas
⟨fabient@FreeBSD.org⟩.
