On 2019-04-26, Igor Podlesny <[email protected]> wrote: > Or would kernel's recompiling be needed anyways? > > Moreover, I'm actually interested in intersection of watchdogs > provided by KVM and > supported by OpenBSD (as KVM's guest). At least as to KVM's it's gonna > be a short list: > > 1) i6300esb (PCI) > 2) ib700 (ISA) > > Attempt with 1st item shows its driver isn't compiled. Moreover, I've > found this in mail list archives: > > revision 1.411 > date: 2005/05/02 17:26:00; author: grange; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1; > Add ichwdt(4): Intel 6300ESB ICH watchdog timer driver. Disabled for > now due to lack of testing. If you have a machine that uses this > device please contact me. > > Is there no solution of this task in OpenBSD 6.x? >
Recompiling would be needed. If you want to try it, see faq 5 about fetching the source tree, add "ichwdt* at pci?" to /sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC. then see faq 5 about building a kernel.
