opensolaris man page for smbus

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)