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28.Dd October 16, 2019
29.Dt WBWD 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm wbwd
33.Nd device driver for Winbond/Nuvoton Super I/O chips watchdog timer
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device superio"
39.Cd "device wbwd"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
43line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46wbwd_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides
52.Xr watchdog 4
53support for the watchdog interrupt timer present on at least the following
54Super I/O chips:
55.Bl -bullet -compact
56.It
57Winbond 83627HF/F/HG/G
58.It
59Winbond 83627S
60.It
61Winbond 83697HF
62.It
63Winbond 83697UG
64.It
65Winbond 83637HF
66.It
67Winbond 83627THF
68.It
69Winbond 83687THF
70.It
71Winbond 83627EHF
72.It
73Winbond 83627DHG
74.It
75Winbond 83627UHG
76.It
77Winbond 83667HG
78.It
79Winbond 83627DHG-P
80.It
81Winbond 83667HG-B
82.It
83Nuvoton NCT6775
84.It
85Nuvoton NCT6776
86.It
87Nuvoton NCT6102
88.It
89Nuvoton NCT6779
90.It
91Nuvoton NCT6791
92.It
93Nuvoton NCT6792
94.El
95.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
96The
97.Nm
98driver provides the following options as
99.Xr sysctl 8
100variables.
101.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
102.It Va dev.wbwd.0.timeout_override
103This variable allows to program the timer to a value independent on the one
104provided by the
105.Xr watchdog 4
106framework while still relying on the regular updates from e.g.
107.Xr watchdogd 8 .
108This is particularly useful if your system provides multiple watchdogs and
109you want them to fire in a special sequence to trigger an NMI after a shorter
110period than the reset timeout for example.
111The value set must not be lower than the sleep time of
112.Xr watchdogd 8 .
113A value of 0 disables this feature and the timeout value provided by
114.Xr watchdog 4
115will be used.
116.It Va dev.wbwd.0.debug_verbose
117If set this sysctl will tell the driver to log its current state before and
118after the timer reset on each invocation from
119.Xr watchdog 9
120to the kernel message buffer for debugging.
121.It Va dev.wbwd.0.debug
122This read-only value gives the state of some registers on last update.
123.El
124.Pp
125The
126.Nm
127driver also provides further sysctl options that are hidden by default.
128See the source code for more information.
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr superio 4 ,
131.Xr watchdog 4 ,
132.Xr device.hints 5 ,
133.Xr watchdog 8 ,
134.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
135.Xr watchdog 9
136.Sh HISTORY
137The
138.Nm
139driver first appeared in
140.Fx 10.0 .
141.Sh AUTHORS
142.An -nosplit
143This manual page was written by
144.An Bjoern A. Zeeb Aq Mt bz@FreeBSD.org .
145