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28.Dd August 23, 2007
29.Dt ICHWD 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ichwd
33.Nd device driver for the Intel ICH watchdog interrupt timer
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel,
36place the following line in your
37kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device ichwd"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a
43module at boot time, place the following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46ichwd_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides
52.Xr watchdog 4
53support for the watchdog interrupt timer present in
54the Intel ICH motherboard chipsets.
55.Sh SEE ALSO
56.Xr watchdog 4 ,
57.Xr watchdog 8 ,
58.Xr watchdogd 8
59.Sh HISTORY
60The
61.Nm
62driver first appeared in
63.Fx 5.3 .
64.Sh AUTHORS
65.An -nosplit
66The
67.Nm
68driver was originally written by
69.An Wm. Daryl Hawkins
70of Texas A&M University.
71This manual page was written by
72.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
73