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The System Management Controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon machines is a piece of hardware that exposes various functionalities such as temperature sensors, voltage/power meters, shutdown/reboot handling, GPIOs and more. Communication happens via a shared mailbox using the RTKit protocol which is also used for other co-processors. The SMC protocol then allows reading and writing many different keys which implement the various features. The MFD core device handles this protocol and exposes it to the sub-devices. Some of the sub-devices are potentially also useful on pre-M1 Apple machines and support for SMCs on these machines can be added at a later time. Co-developed-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> Reviewed-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io> Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev> Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610-smc-6-15-v7-5-556cafd771d3@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.