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26.Dd December 31, 2005
27.Dt AMDPM 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm amdpm
31.Nd AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power Management controller driver
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd device smbus
34.Cd device smb
35.Cd device amdpm
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37This driver provides access to
38.Tn AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power management controllers .
39Currently, only the SMBus 1.0 controller function is implemented.
40The SMBus 2.0 functionality of the AMD 8111 controller is supported via the
41.Xr amdsmb 4
42driver.
43.Pp
44The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may give you access
45to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
46See
47.Xr smb 4
48for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
49monitoring chip of your mainboard.
50.Sh SEE ALSO
51.Xr amdsmb 4 ,
52.Xr intpm 4 ,
53.Xr smb 4 ,
54.Xr smbus 4
55.Sh HISTORY
56The
57.Nm
58driver first appeared in
59.Fx 4.5 .
60.Sh AUTHORS
61.An -nosplit
62This driver was written by
63.An "Matthew C. Forman" .
64Based heavily on the
65.Nm alpm
66driver by
67.An Nicolas Souchu .
68This manual page was written by
69.An Murray Stokely Aq Mt murray@FreeBSD.org .
70.Sh BUGS
71Only polling mode is supported.
72