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27eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Dd August 10, 1998
283c7f758bSBruce Evans.Dt SMBUS 4
293d45e180SRuslan Ermilov.Os
30eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh NAME
31eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Nm smbus
32eb083802SRuslan Ermilov.Nd System Management Bus
33eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh SYNOPSIS
34b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device smbus"
35eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Pp
36b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device iicsmb"
37b9781e20SJeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.Cd "device bktr"
38eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh DESCRIPTION
39eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
40eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Em smbus
41eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent
42eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices
43eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuand to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, Brooktree848, vm86...).
44eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh System Management Bus
45eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
46eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Em System Management Bus
47eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuis a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate
486d249eeeSSheldon Hearnwith rest of the system.
496d249eeeSSheldon HearnIt uses I2C as its backbone (see
50eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicbus 4 ) .
513136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
52eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuA system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping
53eb8752d5SNicolas Souchuindividual control lines.
543136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
55eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuWith the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the
56eb8752d5SNicolas Souchusystem what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event,
57eb8752d5SNicolas Souchureport different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its
58eb8752d5SNicolas Souchustatus.
593136363fSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
6056b1692aSJean-Marc ZucconiThe SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus
6156b1692aSJean-Marc Zucconicomponents provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided
6256b1692aSJean-Marc Zucconibetween the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices.
63eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh SEE ALSO
64def37e7cSMike Pritchard.Xr bktr 4 ,
65eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicbus 4 ,
66eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr iicsmb 4 ,
67eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Xr smb 4
688d975d4fSJoerg Wunsch.Rs
698d975d4fSJoerg Wunsch.%T The SMBus specification
70aa4a335bSRuslan Ermilov.%U http://www.smbus.org/specs/
718d975d4fSJoerg Wunsch.Re
72eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Sh HISTORY
73eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThe
74eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Nm
75eb8752d5SNicolas Souchumanual page first appeared in
76eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.Fx 3.0 .
77def37e7cSMike Pritchard.Sh AUTHORS
78eb8752d5SNicolas SouchuThis
79eb8752d5SNicolas Souchumanual page was written by
80eb8752d5SNicolas Souchu.An Nicolas Souchu .
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