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28.Dd May 22, 2019
29.Dt I2C 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm i2c
33.Nd test I2C bus and slave devices
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Cm -a Ar address
37.Op Fl f Ar device
38.Op Fl d Ar r|w
39.Op Fl w Ar 0|8|16|16LE|16BE
40.Op Fl o Ar offset
41.Op Fl c Ar count
42.Op Fl m Ar tr|ss|rs|no
43.Op Fl b
44.Op Fl v
45.Nm
46.Cm -s
47.Op Fl f Ar device
48.Op Fl n Ar skip_addr
49.Op Fl v
50.Nm
51.Cm -r
52.Op Fl f Ar device
53.Op Fl v
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Nm
57utility can be used to perform raw data transfers (read or write) with devices
58on the I2C bus.
59It can also scan the bus for available devices and reset the I2C controller.
60.Pp
61The options are as follows:
62.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d Ar direction"
63.It Fl a Ar address
647-bit address on the I2C device to operate on (hex).
65.It Fl b
66binary mode - when performing a read operation, the data read from the device
67is output in binary format on stdout.
68.It Fl c Ar count
69number of bytes to transfer (decimal).
70.It Fl d Ar r|w
71transfer direction: r - read, w - write.
72Data to be written is read from stdin as binary bytes.
73.It Fl f Ar device
74I2C bus to use (default is /dev/iic0).
75.It Fl m Ar tr|ss|rs|no
76addressing mode, i.e., I2C bus operations performed after the offset for the
77transfer has been written to the device and before the actual read/write
78operation.
79.Bl -tag -compact -offset indent
80.It Va tr
81complete-transfer
82.It Va ss
83stop then start
84.It Va rs
85repeated start
86.It Va no
87none
88.El
89Some I2C bus hardware does not provide control over the individual start,
90repeat-start, and stop operations.
91Such hardware can only perform a complete transfer of the offset and the
92data as a single operation.
93The
94.Va tr
95mode creates control structures describing the transfer and submits them
96to the driver as a single complete transaction.
97This mode works on all types of I2C hardware.
98.It Fl n Ar skip_addr
99address(es) to be skipped during bus scan.
100One or more addresses ([0x]xx) or ranges of addresses
101([0x]xx-[0x]xx or [0x]xx..[0x]xx) separated by commas or colons.
102.It Fl o Ar offset
103offset within the device for data transfer (hex).
104The default is zero.
105Use
106.Dq -w 0
107to disable writing of the offset to the slave.
108.It Fl r
109reset the controller.
110.It Fl s
111scan the bus for devices.
112.It Fl v
113be verbose.
114.It Fl w Ar 0|8|16|16LE|16BE
115device offset width (in bits).
116This is used to determine how to pass
117.Ar offset
118specified with
119.Fl o
120to the slave.
121Zero means that the offset is ignored and not passed to the slave at all.
122The endianess defaults to little-endian.
123.El
124.Sh EXAMPLES
125.Bl -bullet
126.It
127Scan the default bus (/dev/iic0) for devices:
128.Pp
129i2c -s
130.It
131Scan the default bus (/dev/iic0) for devices and skip addresses
1320x45 to 0x47 (inclusive) and 0x56.
133.Pp
134i2c -s -n 0x56,45-47
135.It
136Read 8 bytes of data from device at address 0x56 (e.g., an EEPROM):
137.Pp
138i2c -a 0x56 -d r -c 8
139.It
140Write 16 bytes of data from file data.bin to device 0x56 at offset 0x10:
141.Pp
142i2c -a 0x56 -d w -c 16 -o 0x10 -b < data.bin
143.It
144Copy 4 bytes between two EEPROMs (0x56 on /dev/iic1 to 0x57 on /dev/iic0):
145.Pp
146i2c -a 0x56 -f /dev/iic1 -d r -c 0x4 -b | i2c -a 0x57 -f /dev/iic0 -d w -c 4 -b
147.It
148Reset the controller:
149.Pp
150i2c -f /dev/iic1 -r
151.El
152.Sh WARNING
153Many systems store critical low-level information in I2C memories, and
154may contain other I2C devices, such as temperature or voltage sensors.
155Reading these can disturb the firmware's operation and writing to them
156can "brick" the hardware.
157.Sh SEE ALSO
158.Xr iic 4 ,
159.Xr iicbus 4
160.Xr smbus 4
161.Sh HISTORY
162The
163.Nm
164utility appeared in
165.Fx 8.0 .
166.Sh AUTHORS
167.An -nosplit
168The
169.Nm
170utility and this manual page were written by
171.An Bartlomiej Sieka Aq Mt tur@semihalf.com
172and
173.An Michal Hajduk Aq Mt mih@semihalf.com .
174