February 24, 2006 TIMER 4 sparc

### NAME

timer - Timer driver for Sun SPARC computers

### SYNOPSIS

timer0 at mainbus0 # sun4c timer0 at obio0 # sun4m timer0 at obio0 addr 0xef000000 # sun4/300

### DESCRIPTION

The timer device is used to generate clocks for the NetBSD kernel.

The hardclock is provided by the timer register and the statistics clock by CPU counter registers.

### SEE ALSO

sparc/clock(4)

### HISTORY

The timer appeared in NetBSD1.0.