viawd4
Device driver for via south bridge watchdog timer
Usage
device viawd
In loader.conf(5): viawd_load="YES"
Overview
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.
Releases
35 releases since FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE; the text changed 22 times.