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.Dd November 25, 2006
.Dt PWDOG 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pwdog
.Nd Quancom PWDOG1 PCI watchdog timer device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "pwdog0 at pci?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the Quancom PWDOG1 boards.
.Pp
If the kernel crashes, the watchdog timer is not reset and the system will
reboot (assuming a proper connection is made between the PWDOG1 and
the motherboard).
Alternatively, the watchdog can be reinitialized via a userland process which
ensures that process scheduling, not just kernel timeout processing, is still
taking place.
See
.Xr watchdog 4
and
.Xr watchdogd 8
for more information.
.Pp
The timeout period of the PWDOG1 card is set using DIP-switches and can
not be changed by software.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr watchdog 4 ,
.Xr watchdogd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Marc Balmer Aq mbalmer@openbsd.org .
.Sh BUGS
It's unwise to combine
.Nm
with
.Xr ddb 4 ,
since the latter may prevent the former from resetting the watchdog timeout
before it expires.