NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     amdpm -- AMD 756 Power Management controller driver

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     device smbus
     device smb
     device amdpm

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     This driver provides access to the AMD 756 Power management controller.
     Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented.

     The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may give you access
     to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.  See smb(4) for writing
     user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the monitoring
     chip of your mainboard.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     smb(4), smbus(4)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The amdpm driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.5.

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     This driver was written by Matthew C. Forman.  Based heavily on the alpm
     driver by Nicolas Souchu.	This manual page was written by
     Murray Stokely <[email protected]>.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Only polling mode is supported.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		      September 16, 2001		 FreeBSD 5.2.1