NAME
iopwdog —
Intel I/O Processor Watchdog
Timer
SYNOPSIS
iopxs* at mainbus?
iopwdog* at iopxs?
DESCRIPTION
The
iopwdog driver supports the watchdog timer built-in to the
following Intel I/O Processors:
- Intel i80321 I/O Processor
The watchdog timer counts down at a fixed rate based on the clock speed of the
XScale CPU core. The period of the watchdog timer cannot be changed, nor can
the watchdog time be disabled once is has been enabled.
SEE ALSO
wdogctl(8)
HISTORY
The
iopwdog device first appeared in
NetBSD
2.0.
AUTHORS
The
iopwdog driver was written by
Jason R.
Thorpe
<
thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
and contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc.