PWDOG(4)

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version 11.0 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, meet pwdog(4) — the manual page for the Quancom PWDOG1 watchdog timer device, straight from the Kernel Interfaces Manual. The NAME line is literally: pwdog — Quancom PWDOG1 watchdog timer device. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pwdog0 at pci?

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The pwdog driver provides support for Quancom PWDOG1 boards. That's the whole assignment, and it ate. 🫶

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. No cap, that connection is doing important work. 😭

Alternatively, the watchdog can be reinitialized via a userland process. This ensures that process scheduling — not just kernel timeout processing — is still taking place. It's giving "bestie, are you actually alive?" energy. 👑

The timeout period of the PWDOG1 card is set using DIP switches and cannot be changed by software. Periodt. Those little switches are the main character. 🎀

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

The pwdog driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.1 and NetBSD 6.0. Iconic crossover moment, honestly. ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The pwdog driver was written by Marc Balmer <mbalmer@NetBSD.org>. Slay. 💖

mwah 💋 — this page is from Debian, dated August 11, 2011. 🎀

📦 where this page comes from
  • nixpkgs unstable: netbsd-source 11.0
  • Copyright (c) 2011 Marc Balmer <mbalmer@NetBSD.org>
  • Copyright (c) 2006 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms