NAME

       viawd — device driver for VIA south bridge watchdog timer

SYNOPSIS

       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

             device viawd

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             viawd_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

       watchdog(4), watchdog(8), watchdogd(8), watchdog(9)

HISTORY

       The viawd driver first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS

       The viawd driver and this manual page were written by Fabien Thomas <fabient@FreeBSD.org>.

Debian                                          December 7, 2011                                        VIAWD(4)