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27.Dd April 20, 2002
28.Dt VIAPM 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm viapm
32.Nd VIA chipsets Power Management controller driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd device iicbb
35.Cd device iicbus
36.Cd device iicsmb
37.Cd device smbus
38.Cd device smb
39.Cd device viapm
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41This driver provides access to the
42.Tn "VIA chipset Power Management Unit"
43family.
44They are
45VT82C586B, VT82C596A, VT82C596B, VT82C686A and VT8233.
46.Pp
47The embedded controller of the VIA chipset may give you access
48to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
49.Pp
50The 586B support is made by software whereas other controllers support
51the SMBus protocol by hardware.
52See
53.Xr smb 4
54for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
55monitoring chip of your mainboard.
56.Sh SEE ALSO
57.Xr iicbb 4 ,
58.Xr iicbus 4 ,
59.Xr iicsmb 4 ,
60.Xr smb 4 ,
61.Xr smbus 4
62.Sh HISTORY
63The
64.Nm
65manual page first appeared in
66.Fx 4.5 .
67.Sh AUTHORS
68This
69manual page was written by
70.An Nicolas Souchu Aq Mt nsouch@FreeBSD.org .
71.Sh BUGS
72Only polling mode is supported.
73