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37.Dd February 24, 2006
38.Dt TIMER 4 sparc
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm timer
42.Nd Timer driver for Sun SPARC computers
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "timer0 at mainbus0                # sun4c"
45.Cd "timer0 at obio0                   # sun4m"
46.Cd "timer0 at obio0 addr 0xef000000   # sun4/300"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50device is used to generate clocks for the
51.Nx
52kernel.
53.Pp
54The hardclock is provided by the timer register and the statistics
55clock by CPU counter registers.
56.Sh SEE ALSO
57.Xr sparc/clock 4
58.Sh HISTORY
59The
60.Nm
61appeared in
62.Nx 1.0 .
63