berkwdt(4)

berkwdt4

Berkshire products watchdog timer device

Usage

berkwdt0 at pci?

Overview

The berkwdt driver provides support for the Berkshire Products PCI PC Watchdog. These devices contain a watchdog timer and general purpose digital inputs and outputs, but currently only the watchdog timer is supported.

berkwdt provides the standard watchdog(4) interface and may be used with watchdogd(8). The watchdog timer may be configured to a value from 1 second to 18 hours.

Releases

36 releases since OpenBSD 4.6; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.6–5.3
  2. 5.4–8.0

History

The berkwdt driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.6.

Authors

The berkwdt driver was written by Wim Van Sebroeck ⟨[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.