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27eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Dd August 10, 1998
283c7f758bSBruce Evans.Dt SMBUS 4
29eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Os FreeBSD
30eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh NAME
31eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Nm smbus
32eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Nd
33eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuSystem Management Bus
34eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh SYNOPSIS
35b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device smbus"
36eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Pp
37b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device iicsmb"
38b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device bktr"
39eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh DESCRIPTION
40eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
41eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Em smbus
42eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent
43eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices
44eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuand to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, Brooktree848, vm86...).
45eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh System Management Bus
46eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
47eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Em System Management Bus
48eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuis a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate
496d249eeeSSheldon Hearnwith rest of the system.
506d249eeeSSheldon HearnIt uses I2C as its backbone (see
51eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicbus 4 ).
523136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
53eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuA system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping
54eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuindividual control lines.
553136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
56eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuWith the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the
57eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event,
58eb8752d5SNicolas Souchureport different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its
59eb8752d5SNicolas Souchustatus.
603136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
6156b1692aSJean-Marc ZucconiThe SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus
6256b1692aSJean-Marc Zucconicomponents provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided
6356b1692aSJean-Marc Zucconibetween the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices.
64eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh SEE ALSO
65def37e7cSMike Pritchard.Xr bktr 4 ,
66eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicbus 4 ,
67eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicsmb 4 ,
68eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr smb 4
69eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh HISTORY
70eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
71eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Nm
72eb8752d5SNicolas Souchumanual page first appeared in
73eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Fx 3.0 .
74def37e7cSMike Pritchard.Sh AUTHORS
75eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThis
76eb8752d5SNicolas Souchumanual page was written by
77eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.An Nicolas Souchu .
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