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Andriy Gapon d1817e7db7 amdsbwd: update to support SB8xx southbridges
Many thanks to Tino <tinotom@gmail.com> for drawing my attention to
this, for doing a lot of testing and providing great feedback.
Many thanks to AMD for continuing to release public specifications for
their chipsets.

PR:		kern/157568
Tested by:	Tino <tinotom@gmail.com>
MFC after:	1 week
2011-06-07 06:18:02 +00:00

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.Dd June 7, 2011
.Dt AMDSBWD 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm amdsbwd
.Nd device driver for the AMD SB600/SB7xx/SB8xx watchdog timers
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following line in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device amdsbwd"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
amdsbwd_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides
.Xr watchdog 4
support for the watchdog timers present on
AMD SB600, SB7xx and SB8xx southbridges.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr watchdog 4 ,
.Xr watchdog 8 ,
.Xr watchdogd 8 ,
.Xr watchdog 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 7.3
and
.Fx 8.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Andriy Gapon Aq avg@FreeBSD.org .
This manual page was written by
.An Andriy Gapon Aq avg@FreeBSD.org .