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14.Dd January 11, 2025
15.Dt USMN 4D
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm usmn
19.Nd AMD SMN user access driver
20.Sh SYNOPSIS
21.Pa /devices/pseudo/amdzen@0/usmn@2:usmn.*
22.Sh DESCRIPTION
23The
24.Nm
25driver provides the ability to read and write data from the AMD System
26Management Network
27.Pq SMN
28on AMD Family 17h
29.Pq Zen, Zen+, and Zen 2 ,
30AMD Family 19h
31.Pq Zen 3 and Zen 4 ,
32and AMD Family 1ah
33.Pq Zen 5
34processors.
35.Pp
36This driver is intended strictly for facilitating platform development
37and is not recommended for systems that aren't doing kernel and platform
38development on AMD Zen platforms.
39Arbitrary writes to the SMN can severely damage and destabilize the system.
40If you do not need access to the SMN, then this driver should not be
41present on the system.
42.Sh SEE ALSO
43.Xr amdzen 4D ,
44.Xr zen_udf 4D
45