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30.Dd February 24, 2006
31.Dt TIMER 4 sparc
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm timer
35.Nd Timer driver for Sun SPARC computers
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "timer0 at mainbus0                # sun4c"
38.Cd "timer0 at obio0                   # sun4m"
39.Cd "timer0 at obio0 addr 0xef000000   # sun4/300"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43device is used to generate clocks for the
44.Nx
45kernel.
46.Pp
47The hardclock is provided by the timer register and the statistics
48clock by CPU counter registers.
49.Sh SEE ALSO
50.Xr sparc/clock 4
51.Sh HISTORY
52The
53.Nm
54appeared in
55.Nx 1.0 .
56