amdpm(4)

NAME

amdpm - AMD 756 Power Management controller driver

SYNOPSIS

device smbus
device smb
device amdpm

DESCRIPTION

This driver provides access to the AMD 756 Power management

controller.
Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented.

The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may

give you access
to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard. See smb(4)

for writing
user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the

monitoring
chip of your mainboard.

SEE ALSO

smb(4), smbus(4)

HISTORY

The amdpm driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.5.

AUTHORS

This driver was written by Matthew C. Forman. Based heavily

on the alpm
driver by Nicolas Souchu. This manual page was written by

Murray Stokely
<murray@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

Only polling mode is supported.

BSD September 16, 2001

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