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author | murray <murray@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-09-16 22:35:07 +0000 |
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committer | murray <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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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/amdpm.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/amdpm.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c40aea --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/amdpm.4 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.\" 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 +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" 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. |