---
name: "amdpm"
section: "4"
platform: "linux"
package: "freebsd-manpages"
version: "6.0-5"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux", "freebsd", "openbsd"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/amdpm"
---

# amdpm(4)

AMD 756 Power Management controller driver

## NAME

**amdpm** – AMD 756 Power Management controller driver

## SYNOPSIS

**device** **smbus** **device** **smb** **device** **amdpm**

## DESCRIPTION

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)](/smb/4.md) for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the monitoring chip of your mainboard.

## SEE ALSO

[smb(4)](/smb/4.md), [smbus(4)](/smbus/4.md)

## HISTORY

The **amdpm** driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.5.

## AUTHORS

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 ⟨murray@FreeBSD.org⟩.

## BUGS

Only polling mode is supported.