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27.Dd May 16, 2004
28.Dt SMBMSG 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm smbmsg
32.Nd "send or receive messages over an SMBus"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl f Ar dev
36.Fl p
37.Pp
38.Nm
39.Op Fl f Ar dev
40.Fl s Ar slave
41.Op Fl F Ar fmt
42.Op Fl c Ar cmd
43.Op Fl w
44.Op Fl i Ar incnt
45.Op Fl o Ar outcnt
46.Op Ar outdata ...
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility can be used to send or receive messages over an
51SMBus, see
52.Xr smbus 4 .
53.Pp
54The
55.Nm
56utility has two different modi of operation.
57The first form shown in the synopsis can be used to
58.Dq probe
59the devices on the SMBus.
60This is done by sending each valid device address one
61receive byte, and one quick read message, respectively.
62Devices that respond to these requests will by displayed
63by their device address, followed by the strings
64.Ql r ,
65.Ql w ,
66or
67.Ql rw ,
68for devices that are readable, writeable, or both, readable
69and writeable, respectively.
70The only valid additional option for this modus of operation (besides
71the
72.Fl p
73option that chooses the modus) is
74.Fl f Ar dev .
75See below for a description.
76.Pp
77Note that probing the bus is risky, since individual devices could
78perform unwanted actions upon receiving one of the mentioned messages.
79For example, if a particular SMBus device considers
80.Em any
81write operation issued to it as a request to power off the system,
82the probing would trigger this action.
83.Pp
84The second form shown in the synopsis can be used to send or receive
85arbitrary messages to or from individual devices.
86This might be useful to explore individual devices on the SMBus, or
87maybe even to write short shell scripts performing maintenance
88operations on the bus.
89.Pp
90Any data values on the command-line are integer values in the
91range 0 through 255 for byte values, or 0 through 65535 for
92word values.
93They can be specified using standard
94.Ql C
95notation (prefix 0 for octal interpretation, or 0x for
96hexadecimal interpretation).
97.Pp
98Since the low-order bit of the device address of SMBus devices
99selects between read and write operations, only even-numbered
100slave addresses can exist on the bus.
101.Pp
102The options are as follows:
103.Bl -tag -width ".Fl o Ar outcnt"
104.It Fl F Ar fmt
105Specify the
106.Xr printf 3
107format to be used for displaying input data.
108This option is ignored in messages that do not read any input
109from the SMBus device.
110The format defaults to
111.Ql 0x%02x
112for byte input operations, and to
113.Ql 0x%04x
114for word input operations.
115For multi-byte input (block read), the same format is used for
116each individual byte read from the SMBus.
117.It Fl c Ar cmd
118This is the value of the
119.Em command
120byte to be issued as part of the SMBus message.
121.It Fl f Ar dev
122This specifies that
123.Ar dev
124should be used as the connection to the SMBus, rather than the
125default of
126.Pa /dev/smb0 .
127.It Fl i Ar incnt
128An SMBus message should be generated to read
129.Ar incnt
130bytes from the device.
131.It Fl o Ar outcnt
132An SMBus message should be generated to write
133.Ar outcnt
134bytes to the device.
135The data values to write are expected to follow all of the options
136(and their arguments) on the command-line, where the number of data
137bytes must match the
138.Ar outcnt
139value.
140.It Fl p
141This selects the
142.Em probe bus
143modus of operation.
144.It Fl s Ar slave
145The
146.Ar slave
147parameter specifies which SMBus device to connect to.
148This option also selects the
149.Em transfer messages from/to device
150modus of operation, where a slave address is mandatory.
151.It Fl w
152This option specifies that IO operations are word operations,
153rather than byte operations.
154Either
155.Ar incnt ,
156or
157.Ar outcnt
158(or both) must be equal 2 in this case.
159Note that the SMBus byte order is defined to be little-endian
160(low byte first, high byte follows).
161.El
162.Pp
163Not all argument combinations make sense in order to form valid SMBus
164messages.
165If no
166.Fl c Ar cmd
167option has been provided, the following messages can be
168issued:
169.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
170.TS
171l r r.
172\fBmessage	incnt	outcnt\fR
173quick read	0	\&-
174quick write	\&-	0
175receive byte	1	\&-
176send byte	\&-	1
177.TE
178.Ed
179.Pp
180Note in particular that specifying 0 as a count value
181has a different meaning than omitting the respective
182option entirely.
183.Pp
184If a command value has been given using the
185.Fl c Ar cmd
186option, the following messages can be generated:
187.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
188.TS
189l l r r.
190\fBmessage	\&-w	incnt	outcnt\fR
191read byte	no	1	\&-
192write byte	no	\&-	1
193read word	yes	2	\&-
194write word	yes	\&-	2
195process call	yes	2	2
196block read	no	\*(Ge 2	\&-
197block write	no	\&-	\*(Ge 2
198.TE
199.Ed
200.Sh FILES
201.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/smb0" -compact
202.It Pa /dev/smb0
203The default device to connect to, unless
204.Fl f Ar dev
205has been provided.
206.El
207.Sh EXIT STATUS
208Exit status is 0 on success, or according to
209.Xr sysexits 3
210in case of failure.
211.Sh EXAMPLES
212Typical usage examples of the
213.Nm
214command include:
215.Pp
216.Dl "smbmsg -f /dev/smb1 -p"
217.Pp
218Probe all devices on the SMBus attached to
219.Pa /dev/smb1 .
220.Pp
221.Dl "smbmsg -s 0x70 -i 1"
222.Pp
223Issue a
224.Em receive byte
225message to the device at address 0x70, and display
226the received byte using the default format.
227.Pp
228.Dl "smbmsg -s 0x70 -c 0xff -i 1 -F %d"
229.Pp
230Issue a
231.Em read byte
232message to the device at slave address 0x70, using
233255 (0xff) as the command-byte to send to the device,
234and display the result using the custom format
235.Ql %d .
236.Pp
237.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 0 -o 1 0x80"
238.Pp
239Send a
240.Em write byte
241message to the slave device at address 0xa0, using
2420 as the command-byte value, and 0x80 as the byte to
243send (after the command).
244Assuming this might be a Philips PCF8583 real-time clock,
245this would stop the clock.
246.Pp
247.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 1 -i 6 -F %02x"
248.Pp
249Send a
250.Em block read
251command to device at address 0xa0, and read 6 bytes from
252it, using hexadecimal display.
253Again, assuming a PCF8583 RTC, this would display the
254fractions of second, seconds, minutes, hours, year/date,
255and weekday/month values.
256Since this RTC uses BCD notation, the actual values displayed
257were decimal then.
258.Pp
259.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 2 -o 5 0x00 0x07 0x22 0x16 0x05"
260.Pp
261Send a
262.Em block write
263command to device at address 0xa0.
264For the PCF8583 RTC, this would set the clock to Sunday (2004%4)-05-16
26522:07:00.
266.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
267Diagnostic messages issued are supposed to be self-explanatory.
268.Sh SEE ALSO
269.Xr printf 3 ,
270.Xr sysexits 3 ,
271.Xr smb 4 ,
272.Xr smbus 4
273.Rs
274.%T "The SMBus specification"
275.%U http://www.smbus.org/specs/
276.Re
277.Sh HISTORY
278The
279.Nm
280utility first appeared in
281.Fx 5.3 .
282.Sh AUTHORS
283The
284.Nm
285utility and this manual page were written by
286.An J\(:org Wunsch .
287