asmc(4)

asmc4

Apple system management controller (smc)

Usage

asmc0 at acpi?

Overview

The asmc driver provides support for the Apple System Management Controller (SMC), as found in Intel based Apple devices.

The driver possesses a collection of temperature, fan, light, and acceleration sensor values which are made available through the sysctl(8) interface.

If available, the keyboard backlight is enabled by the driver and can be adjusted using the wsconsctl(8) variable keyboard.backlight.

Caveats

Light sensor values may not be available on older products.

Acceleration sensors are not available and the associated interrupt handling is not implemented.

Besides the sensors, the huge amount of other functions and information available from the SMC is not supported.

Releases

23 releases since OpenBSD 5.9; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.9–6.7
  2. 6.8–8.0

History

The asmc driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

Authors

The asmc driver was written by Joerg Jung ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.