viawd
—
device driver for VIA south bridge watchdog
timer
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel
configuration file:
device viawd
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
The
viawd
driver provides
watchdog(4)
support for the watchdog interrupt timer present on VIA south bridge chipset
(VT8251, CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900).
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.
The
viawd
driver when unloaded with running
watchdog will reschedule the watchdog to 5 minutes.
watchdog(4),
watchdog(8),
watchdogd(8),
watchdog(9)
The
viawd
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 10.0.
The
viawd
driver and this manual page were
written by
Fabien Thomas
<
fabient@FreeBSD.org>.