DWDOG(4)

💖 DWDOG(4) 💖

okay so bestie, you're looking at the dwdog manual page — from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, no less 👑 — and honestly? it's a short one, which means you have zero excuse not to read the whole thing. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dwdog — the Synopsys DesignWare watchdog timer. that's it, that's the name. she's a watchdog. she watches. iconic behavior tbh 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dwdog* at fdt?

that's the whole thing. one line. dwdog* attaches at fdt? — literally that simple, slay 💀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the dwdog driver provides support for the Synopsys DesignWare watchdog timer, which is built into various SoCs. like, it's not some add-on you gotta go buy — it's already in there, living rent-free in your chip. main character energy fr fr 🌟

ngl if you don't know what a watchdog timer does, that's what the SEE ALSO section is for, bestie. go read watchdog(4). i'll wait 🎀

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• intro(4)
• watchdog(4)
• watchdogd(8)

all three. i'm not skipping any. it's giving thorough 💅✨

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the dwdog driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.2. so she's been around a minute — a legacy icon, a veteran, an OG 🧚‍♀️

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the dwdog driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>. put some respect on the name, bestie 🙌

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and that's the whole page!! you ate that. no cap, you now know everything the manpage knows 🌈🍓

this page you just read was served up by Debian, dated April 4, 2023 — go off, documentation 💜