pmc(4)

pmc4

Power management controller

Usage

pmc* at ebus?

Overview

The pmc driver provides support for the watchdog feature of the power management device of the National Semiconductor PC87317 SuperIO chip found on UltraSPARC III systems.

The watchdog timer provides a standard watchdog(4) interface, and has a granularity of 60 seconds.

History

The pmc driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.2.

Authors

The pmc driver was written by Mark Kettenis ⟨[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.