amdpm(4)

amdpm4

Amd 756 power management controller driver

Usage

device smbus device smb device amdpm

Overview

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.

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 ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

Only polling mode is supported.

From freebsd-manpages 6.0-5 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.