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27.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
28.Dt WDT 4 i386
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm wdt
32.Nd ICS PCI-WDT500/501 watchdog timer device
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "wdt0 at pci?"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver provides support for the Industrial Computer Source
39PCI-WDT500 and PCI-WDT501 boards.
40.Pp
41For PCI-WDT500 boards, basic watchdog timer functionality is supported.
42For PCI-WDT501 boards, the onboard buzzer will sound when the watchdog
43counter expires.
44The sensors are not yet supported.
45.Pp
46If the kernel crashes, the watchdog
47timer is not reset and the system will reboot (assuming a proper connection
48is made between the WDT50x and motherboard).
49Alternatively, the watchdog
50can be reinitialized via a userland process which ensures that process
51scheduling, not just kernel timeout processing, is still taking place.
52See
53.Xr watchdog 4
54and
55.Xr watchdogd 8
56for more information.
57.Pp
58The timer can be configured to have a timeout from 2 to 1800 seconds.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr intro 4 ,
61.Xr pci 4 ,
62.Xr watchdog 4 ,
63.Xr watchdogd 8
64.Sh HISTORY
65The
66.Nm
67driver first appeared in
68.Ox 2.6 .
69