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diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index b366dd5..5b41aea 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -499,6 +499,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ vga.4 \ vge.4 \ viapm.4 \ + ${_viawd.4} \ vinum.4 \ vkbd.4 \ vlan.4 \ @@ -711,6 +712,7 @@ _speaker.4= speaker.4 _spkr.4= spkr.4 _tpm.4= tpm.4 _urtw.4= urtw.4 +_viawd.4= viawd.4 _wpi.4= wpi.4 _xen.4= xen.4 diff --git a/share/man/man4/viawd.4 b/share/man/man4/viawd.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47473cf --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/viawd.4 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.\"- +.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Fabien Thomas <fabient@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. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS `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 OR CONTRIBUTORS 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 December 7, 2011 +.Dt VIAWD 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm viawd +.Nd device driver for VIA south bridge watchdog timer +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following line in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device viawd" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +viawd_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides +.Xr watchdog 4 +support for the watchdog interrupt timer present on +VIA south bridge chipset (VT8251, CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900). +.Pp +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. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver when unloaded with running watchdog will reschedule the watchdog +to 5 minutes. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr watchdog 4 , +.Xr watchdog 8 , +.Xr watchdogd 8 , +.Xr watchdog 9 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 10.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver and this manual page were written by +.An Fabien Thomas Aq fabient@FreeBSD.org . |
