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SMBUS(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SMBUS(4)

smbus
System Management Bus

device smbus


device iicsmb
device bktr

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...).

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.

bktr(4), iicbus(4), iicsmb(4), smb(4)

The SMBus specification, http://www.smbus.org/specs/.

The smbus manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu.
August 10, 1998 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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