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28.Dd December 28, 2012
29.Dt WBWD 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm wbwd
33.Nd device driver for watchdog timer found on Winbond Super I/O chips
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device wbwd"
39.Ed
40.Pp
41Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
42line in
43.Xr loader.conf 5 :
44.Bd -literal -offset indent
45wbwd_load="YES"
46.Ed
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides
51.Xr watchdog 4
52support for the watchdog interrupt timer present on at least the following
53Winbond Super I/O chips:
54.Pp
55.Bl -bullet -compact
56.It
5783627HF/F/HG/G Rev. G
58.It
5983627HF/F/HG/G Rev. J
60.It
6183627HF/F/HG/G Rev. UD-A
62.It
6383627DHG IC ver. 5
64.El
65.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
66The
67.Nm
68driver provides the following options as
69.Xr sysctl 8
70variables.
71.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
72.It Va dev.wbwd.0.timeout_override
73This variable allows to program the timer to a value independent on the one
74provided by the
75.Xr watchdog 4
76framework while still relying on the regular updates from e.g.
77.Xr watchdogd 8 .
78This is particularly useful if your system provides multiple watchdogs and
79you want them to fire in a special sequence to trigger an NMI after a shorter
80period than the reset timeout for example.
81The value set must not be lower than the sleep time of
82.Xr watchdogd 8 .
83A value of 0 disables this feature and the timeout value provided by
84.Xr watchdog 4
85will be used.
86.It Va dev.wbwd.0.debug_verbose
87If set this sysctl will tell the driver to log its current state before and
88after the timer reset on each invocation from
89.Xr watchdog 9
90to the kernel message buffer for debugging.
91.It Va dev.wbwd.0.debug
92This read-only value gives the state of some registers on last update.
93.El
94.Pp
95The
96.Nm
97driver also provides further sysctl options that are hidden by default.
98See the source code for more information.
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr watchdog 4 ,
101.Xr device.hints 5 ,
102.Xr watchdog 8 ,
103.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
104.Xr watchdog 9
105.Sh HISTORY
106The
107.Nm
108driver first appeared in
109.Fx 10.0 .
110.Sh AUTHORS
111.An -nosplit
112This manual page was written by
113.An Bjoern A. Zeeb Aq Mt bz@FreeBSD.org .
114