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authormav <mav@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-15 04:51:07 +0000
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Add hpet(4) man page.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile
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--- a/share/man/man4/Makefile
+++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \
hfa.4 \
hifn.4 \
hme.4 \
+ hpet.4 \
${_hptiop.4} \
${_hptmv.4} \
${_hptrr.4} \
@@ -544,6 +545,7 @@ MLINKS+=gif.4 if_gif.4
MLINKS+=gre.4 if_gre.4
MLINKS+=hatm.4 if_hatm.4
MLINKS+=hme.4 if_hme.4
+MLINKS+=hpet.4 acpi_hpet.4
MLINKS+=${_hptrr.4} ${_rr232x.4}
MLINKS+=idt.4 if_idt.4
MLINKS+=igb.4 if_igb.4
diff --git a/share/man/man4/hpet.4 b/share/man/man4/hpet.4
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+++ b/share/man/man4/hpet.4
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
+.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
+.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
+.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd September 14, 2010
+.Dt HPET 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm hpet
+.Nd High Precision Event Timer driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+To compile this driver into the kernel,
+place the following lines in your
+kernel configuration file:
+.Bd -ragged -offset indent
+.Cd "device acpi"
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The following tunables are settable from the
+.Xr loader 8 :
+.Bl -ohang
+.It Va hint.hpet. Ns Ar X Ns Va .allowed_irqs
+is a 32bit mask. Each set bit allows driver to use respective IRQ,
+if BIOS also set respective capability bit in comparator's configuration
+register.
+Default value is 0xffff0000, except some known broken hardware.
+.It Va hint.hpet. Ns Ar X Ns Va .clock
+controls event timers functionality support. Setting to 0, disables it.
+Default value is 1.
+.It Va hint.hpet. Ns Ar X Ns Va .legacy_route
+controls "LegacyReplacement Route" mode. If enabled, HPET will steal IRQ0 of
+i8254 timer and IRQ8 of RTC. Before using it, make sure that respective
+drivers are not using interrupts, by setting also:
+.Bd -literal
+hint.attimer.0.clock=0
+hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
+.Ed
+Default value is 0.
+.It Va hint.hpet. Ns Ar X Ns Va .per_cpu
+controls how much per-CPU event timers should driver attempt to register.
+This functionality requires every comparator in a group to have own unshared
+IRQ, so it depends on hardware capabilities and interrupts configuration.
+Default value is 1.
+.El
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This driver uses High Precision Event Timer hardware (part of the chipset,
+usually enumerated via ACPI) to supply kernel with one time counter and
+several (usually from 3 to 8) event timers.
+This hardware includes single main counter with known increment frequency
+(10MHz or more), and several programable comparators (optionally with
+automatic reload feature).
+When value of the main counter matches current value of any comparator,
+interrupt can be generated.
+Depending on hardware capabilities and configuration, interrupt can be
+delivered as regular I/O APIC interrupt (ISA or PCI) in range from 0 to 31,
+or as Front Side Bus interrupt, alike to PCI MSI interrupts, or in so called
+"LegacyReplacement Route" HPET can speal IRQ0 of i8254 and IRQ8 of the RTC.
+Interrupt can be either edge- or level-triggered. In last case they could be
+safely shared with PCI IRQs.
+Driver prefers to use FSB interrupts, if supported, to avoid sharing.
+If it is not possible, it uses single sharable IRQ from PCI range.
+Other modes (LegacyReplacement and ISA IRQs) require special care to setup,
+but could be configured manually via device hints.
+.Pp
+Event timers provided by the driver support both one-shot an periodic modes
+and irrelevant to CPU power states.
+.Pp
+Depending on hardware capabilities and configuration, driver can expose each
+comparator as separate event timer or group them into one or several per-CPU
+event timers. In last case interrupt of every of those comparators within
+group is bound to specific CPU core. This is possible only when each
+of these comparators has own unsharable IRQ.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr acpi 4 ,
+.Xr eventtimer 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver first appeared in
+.Fx 6.3 .
+Support for event timers was added in
+.Fx 9.0 .
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