smu(4)

smu4

Apple system management unit

Usage

smu? at mainbus0

Overview

The smu driver provides support for the System Management Unit found on Apple iMac G5 and some Power Mac G5 machines.

The System Management Unit controls the fans in these systems. It also contains the real-time clock and an I2C controller.

History

The smu driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.9.

Authors

The smu driver was written by Mark Kettenis.

Bugs

Fan control is not implemented yet.

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