timer.4 revision 1.1 $NetBSD: timer.4,v 1.1 2006/02/25 17:42:42 christos Exp $
Copyright (c) 2006 Stephan Meisinger
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.Dd February 24, 2006 .Dt TIMER 4 sparc .Os .Sh NAME .Nm timer .Nd Timer driver for Sun SPARC computers .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "timer0 at mainbus0 # sun4c" .Cd "timer0 at obio0 # sun4m" .Cd "timer0 at obio0 addr 0xef000000 # sun4/300" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm device is used to generate clocks for the NetBSD kernel.
Copyright (c) 2006 Stephan Meisinger
This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group
at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and
contributed to Berkeley.
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modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.Dd February 24, 2006 .Dt TIMER 4 sparc .Os .Sh NAME .Nm timer .Nd Timer driver for Sun SPARC computers .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "timer0 at mainbus0 # sun4c" .Cd "timer0 at obio0 # sun4m" .Cd "timer0 at obio0 addr 0xef000000 # sun4/300" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm device is used to generate clocks for the NetBSD kernel.
p The hardclock is provided by the timer register and the statistics clock by CPU counter registers. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sparc/clock 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm appeared in .Nx 1.0 .
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