ACPISMBUS(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPISMBUS(4)NAME
acpismbus -- ACPI SMBus Control Method Interface
SYNOPSIS
acpismbus* at acpi?
iic* at acpismbus?
DESCRIPTION
The acpismbus driver supports instances of the ACPI SMBus Control Method Interface. This enables i2c access to bus segments which might not
otherwise be accessible due to missing "native" driver support. The SMBus Process Call protocol is not supported. All other SMBus protocols
are supported to the extent that the underlying controller supports them.
SEE ALSO acpi(4), iic(4)HISTORY
The acpismbus driver appeared in NetBSD 6.0.
BUGS
Although acpismbus SMBus Alerts can be associated with individual devices, this capability is ignored. When an acpismbus SMBus Alert is gen-
erated, all devices on the i2c bus segment which have registered an interrupt routine are notified.
The SMBus CMI protocol defines a method to provide a list of devices on an i2c bus segment and their addresses. The acpismbus driver makes
no attempt to retrieve or process this device list.
There is currently no way to determine if the i2c controller managed by an instance of the ACPI SMBus CMI can also be accessed using a native
device driver. Therefore, the acpismbus driver should not be enabled by default. If both a native driver and the acpismbus driver attempt
to access the same i2c bus segment, the results are undefined.
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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 5.11 23 July 2003 smbus(7D)
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