AMDPM(4)

💖 AMDPM(4) 💖

Kernel Interfaces Manual ✨ the AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power Management controller driver — bestie edition 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

amdpm — the driver for AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power Management controllers 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so to even have this vibe in your kernel, you gotta put these lines in your kernel config, no cap:

device smbus
device smb
device amdpm

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, this driver gives you access to the AMD 756/766/768/8111 Power management controllers. And rn — like, currently currently — only the SMBus 1.0 controller function is implemented. That's it, that's the whole thing so far 🙈

But wait, there's more: the SMBus 2.0 functionality of the AMD 8111 controller? That's supported through the amdsmb(4) driver instead. Different driver, different girl 💅

Also!! The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may give you access to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard 👑 which is lowkey iconic. Go peep smb(4) if you wanna write user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the monitoring chip of your mainboard — that's your girl for that 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• amdsmb(4)
• intpm(4)
• smb(4)
• smbus(4)

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The amdpm driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.5 ⭐ a true OG, fr fr.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This driver was written by Matthew C. Forman 🫶 Based heavily on the alpm driver by Nicolas Souchu. And this manual page was written by Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> 💌

💀 BUGS 💀

Only polling mode is supported. That's it. That's the whole limitation 😭 no interrupts for you bestie, we poll in this house.

mwah 💋 this page came to you from the <strong>Debian</strong> crew, dated <strong>December 31, 2005</strong> — happy almost-new-year, go read your amdpm(4) and slay ✨💖