NAME
ichwdt —
Intel 6300ESB ICH watchdog timer
device
SYNOPSIS
ichwdt* at pci?
DESCRIPTION
The ichwdt driver supports the watchdog
timer of the Intel 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub.
ichwdt provides the standard
watchdog(4) interface and may be used with
watchdogd(8). The watchdog timer can be configured via
sysctl(8).
Once the watchdog timer resets the CPU, the driver reports it on the next boot displaying the “reboot on timeout” message in the dmesg.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The ichwdt device first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.8.
AUTHORS
The ichwdt driver was written by
Alexander Yurchenko
<grange@openbsd.org>.