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.Dd December 31, 2005
.Dt AMDPM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm amdpm
.Nd AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power Management controller driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd device smbus
.Cd device smb
.Cd device amdpm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver provides access to
.Tn AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power management controllers .
Currently, only the SMBus 1.0 controller function is implemented.
The SMBus 2.0 functionality of the AMD 8111 controller is supported via the
.Xr amdsmb 4
driver.
.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 amdsmb 4 ,
.Xr smb 4 ,
.Xr smbus 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 4.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
This driver was written by
.An "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.