acpihpet(4)

acpihpet4

Acpi high precision event timer

Usage

acpihpet* at acpi?

Overview

The acpihpet driver provides support for the high precision event timer to be used as a timecounter for the tc_init(9) framework.

Releases

42 releases since OpenBSD 4.0; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 4.1
  3. 4.2–5.3
  4. 5.4–8.0

History

The acpihpet driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8.

Authors

The acpihpet driver was written by Thorsten Lockert ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.