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authorMurray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>2001-09-16 22:35:07 +0000
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SMBus support for the AMD 756 power management unit. See smbus(4),
amdpm(4) and smb(4). This device can be used with userland programs such as sysutils/lmmon to retrieve sensor information from the motherboard. PR: kern/23989 Obtained from: Matthew C. Forman <mcf@dmu.ac.uk> Based on: alpm(4)
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+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Murray Stokely
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Takanori Watanabe
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\"
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd September 16, 2001
+.Dt AMDPM 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm amdpm
+.Nd AMD 756 Power Management controller driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd device smbus
+.Cd device smb
+.Cd device amdpm
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This driver provides access to the
+.Tn AMD 756 Power management controller .
+Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented.
+.Pp
+The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may give you access
+to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
+See
+.Xr smb 4
+for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
+monitoring chip of your mainboard.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr smb 4 ,
+.Xr smbus 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver first appeared in
+.Fx 5.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This driver was written by Matthew C. Forman.
+Based heavily on the
+.Nm alpm
+driver by
+.An Nicolas Souchu .
+This manual page was written by
+.An Murray Stokely Aq murray@FreeBSD.org .
+.Sh BUGS
+Only polling mode is supported.