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smbus 7D "23 July 2003" "SunOS 5.11" "Devices"
NAME
smbus - System Management Bus controller driver
DESCRIPTION

The smbus driver is a I2C (Inter IC) nexus driver that allows the system to communicate with various system component chips. SMBus is a two-wire control bus based on the I2C protocol through which systems can communicate with various I2C devices connected to the bus.

The smbus driver supports byte and block level transfer based on interrupt and polled mode.

FILES

/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/smbus

64 bit ELF kernel module

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture SPARC
SEE ALSO

attributes(5)

Writing Device Drivers

System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification 2.0 \(em SBS Implementation Forum

The I2C Bus and How To Use It \(emPhilips Semiconductor Document # 98-8080-575-01