smbus(7D) Devices smbus(7D)NAME
smbus - System Management Bus controller driver
DESCRIPTION
The smbus driver is a I2C (Inter IC) nexus driver that allows the system to communicate with various system component chips. SMBus is
a two-wire control bus based on the I2C protocol through which systems can communicate with various I2C devices connected to the bus.
The smbus driver supports byte and block level transfer based on interrupt and polled mode.
FILES
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/smbus
64 bit ELF kernel module
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcarx |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5)
Writing Device Drivers
System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification 2.0 -- SBS Implementation Forum
The I2C Bus and How To Use It --Philips Semiconductor Document # 98-8080-575-01
SunOS 5.10 23 July 2003 smbus(7D)
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SMBUS(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SMBUS(4)NAME
smbus -- System Management Bus
SYNOPSIS
device smbus
device iicsmb
device bktr
DESCRIPTION
The smbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB
devices and to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, Brooktree848, vm86...).
System Management Bus
The System Management Bus is a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate with rest of the system. It uses
I2C as its backbone (see iicbus(4)).
A system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping individual control lines.
With the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the system what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend
event, report different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its status.
The SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus components provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided
between the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices.
SEE ALSO bktr(4), iicbus(4), iicsmb(4), smb(4)
The SMBus specification, http://www.smbus.org/specs/.
HISTORY
The smbus manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu.
BSD August 10, 1998 BSD
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