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25.Dd May 16, 2004
26.Dt SMBMSG 8
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm smbmsg
30.Nd "send or receive messages over an SMBus"
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm
33.Op Fl f Ar dev
34.Fl p
35.Pp
36.Nm
37.Op Fl f Ar dev
38.Fl s Ar slave
39.Op Fl F Ar fmt
40.Op Fl c Ar cmd
41.Op Fl w
42.Op Fl i Ar incnt
43.Op Fl o Ar outcnt
44.Op Ar outdata ...
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility can be used to send or receive messages over an
49SMBus, see
50.Xr smbus 4 .
51.Pp
52The
53.Nm
54utility has two different modi of operation.
55The first form shown in the synopsis can be used to
56.Dq probe
57the devices on the SMBus.
58This is done by sending each valid device address one
59receive byte, and one quick read message, respectively.
60Devices that respond to these requests will be displayed
61by their device address, followed by the strings
62.Ql r ,
63.Ql w ,
64or
65.Ql rw ,
66for devices that are readable, writeable, or both, readable
67and writeable, respectively.
68The only valid additional option for this modus of operation (besides
69the
70.Fl p
71option that chooses the modus) is
72.Fl f Ar dev .
73See below for a description.
74.Pp
75Note that probing the bus is risky, since individual devices could
76perform unwanted actions upon receiving one of the mentioned messages.
77For example, if a particular SMBus device considers
78.Em any
79write operation issued to it as a request to power off the system,
80the probing would trigger this action.
81.Pp
82The second form shown in the synopsis can be used to send or receive
83arbitrary messages to or from individual devices.
84This might be useful to explore individual devices on the SMBus, or
85maybe even to write short shell scripts performing maintenance
86operations on the bus.
87.Pp
88Any data values on the command-line are integer values in the
89range 0 through 255 for byte values, or 0 through 65535 for
90word values.
91They can be specified using standard
92.Ql C
93notation (prefix 0 for octal interpretation, or 0x for
94hexadecimal interpretation).
95.Pp
96Since the low-order bit of the device address of SMBus devices
97selects between read and write operations, only even-numbered
98slave addresses can exist on the bus.
99.Pp
100The options are as follows:
101.Bl -tag -width ".Fl o Ar outcnt"
102.It Fl F Ar fmt
103Specify the
104.Xr printf 3
105format to be used for displaying input data.
106This option is ignored in messages that do not read any input
107from the SMBus device.
108The format defaults to
109.Ql 0x%02x
110for byte input operations, and to
111.Ql 0x%04x
112for word input operations.
113For multi-byte input (block read), the same format is used for
114each individual byte read from the SMBus.
115.It Fl c Ar cmd
116This is the value of the
117.Em command
118byte to be issued as part of the SMBus message.
119.It Fl f Ar dev
120This specifies that
121.Ar dev
122should be used as the connection to the SMBus, rather than the
123default of
124.Pa /dev/smb0 .
125.It Fl i Ar incnt
126An SMBus message should be generated to read
127.Ar incnt
128bytes from the device.
129.It Fl o Ar outcnt
130An SMBus message should be generated to write
131.Ar outcnt
132bytes to the device.
133The data values to write are expected to follow all of the options
134(and their arguments) on the command-line, where the number of data
135bytes must match the
136.Ar outcnt
137value.
138.It Fl p
139This selects the
140.Em probe bus
141modus of operation.
142.It Fl s Ar slave
143The
144.Ar slave
145parameter specifies which SMBus device to connect to.
146This option also selects the
147.Em transfer messages from/to device
148modus of operation, where a slave address is mandatory.
149.It Fl w
150This option specifies that IO operations are word operations,
151rather than byte operations.
152Either
153.Ar incnt ,
154or
155.Ar outcnt
156(or both) must be equal 2 in this case.
157Note that the SMBus byte order is defined to be little-endian
158(low byte first, high byte follows).
159.El
160.Pp
161Not all argument combinations make sense in order to form valid SMBus
162messages.
163If no
164.Fl c Ar cmd
165option has been provided, the following messages can be
166issued:
167.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
168.TS
169l r r.
170\fBmessage	incnt	outcnt\fR
171quick read	0	\&-
172quick write	\&-	0
173receive byte	1	\&-
174send byte	\&-	1
175.TE
176.Ed
177.Pp
178Note in particular that specifying 0 as a count value
179has a different meaning than omitting the respective
180option entirely.
181.Pp
182If a command value has been given using the
183.Fl c Ar cmd
184option, the following messages can be generated:
185.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
186.TS
187l l r r.
188\fBmessage	\&-w	incnt	outcnt\fR
189read byte	no	1	\&-
190write byte	no	\&-	1
191read word	yes	2	\&-
192write word	yes	\&-	2
193process call	yes	2	2
194block read	no	\*(Ge 2	\&-
195block write	no	\&-	\*(Ge 2
196.TE
197.Ed
198.Sh FILES
199.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/smb0" -compact
200.It Pa /dev/smb0
201The default device to connect to, unless
202.Fl f Ar dev
203has been provided.
204.El
205.Sh EXIT STATUS
206Exit status is 0 on success, or according to
207.Xr sysexits 3
208in case of failure.
209.Sh EXAMPLES
210Typical usage examples of the
211.Nm
212command include:
213.Pp
214.Dl "smbmsg -f /dev/smb1 -p"
215.Pp
216Probe all devices on the SMBus attached to
217.Pa /dev/smb1 .
218.Pp
219.Dl "smbmsg -s 0x70 -i 1"
220.Pp
221Issue a
222.Em receive byte
223message to the device at address 0x70, and display
224the received byte using the default format.
225.Pp
226.Dl "smbmsg -s 0x70 -c 0xff -i 1 -F %d"
227.Pp
228Issue a
229.Em read byte
230message to the device at slave address 0x70, using
231255 (0xff) as the command-byte to send to the device,
232and display the result using the custom format
233.Ql %d .
234.Pp
235.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 0 -o 1 0x80"
236.Pp
237Send a
238.Em write byte
239message to the slave device at address 0xa0, using
2400 as the command-byte value, and 0x80 as the byte to
241send (after the command).
242Assuming this might be a Philips PCF8583 real-time clock,
243this would stop the clock.
244.Pp
245.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 1 -i 6 -F %02x"
246.Pp
247Send a
248.Em block read
249command to device at address 0xa0, and read 6 bytes from
250it, using hexadecimal display.
251Again, assuming a PCF8583 RTC, this would display the
252fractions of second, seconds, minutes, hours, year/date,
253and weekday/month values.
254Since this RTC uses BCD notation, the actual values displayed
255were decimal then.
256.Pp
257.Dl "smbmsg -s 0xa0 -c 2 -o 5 0x00 0x07 0x22 0x16 0x05"
258.Pp
259Send a
260.Em block write
261command to device at address 0xa0.
262For the PCF8583 RTC, this would set the clock to Sunday (2004%4)-05-16
26322:07:00.
264.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
265Diagnostic messages issued are supposed to be self-explanatory.
266.Sh SEE ALSO
267.Xr printf 3 ,
268.Xr sysexits 3 ,
269.Xr smb 4 ,
270.Xr smbus 4
271.Rs
272.%T "The SMBus specification"
273.%U http://www.smbus.org/specs/
274.Re
275.Sh HISTORY
276The
277.Nm
278utility first appeared in
279.Fx 5.3 .
280.Sh AUTHORS
281The
282.Nm
283utility and this manual page were written by
284.An J\(:org Wunsch .
285