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2.7 KiB
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77 lines
2.7 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, Nicolas Souchu
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 10, 1998
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.Dt SMBUS 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm smbus
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.Nd System Management Bus
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device smbus"
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.Pp
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.Cd "device iicsmb"
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.Cd "device bktr"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Em smbus
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system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent
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system for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices
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and to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, Brooktree848, vm86...).
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.Sh System Management Bus
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The
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.Em System Management Bus
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is a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate
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with rest of the system.
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It uses I2C as its backbone (see
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.Xr iicbus 4 ) .
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.Pp
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A system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping
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individual control lines.
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.Pp
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With the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the
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system what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event,
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report different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its
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status.
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.Pp
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The SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus
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components provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided
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between the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr bktr 4 ,
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.Xr iicbus 4 ,
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.Xr iicsmb 4 ,
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.Xr smb 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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manual page first appeared in
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.Fx 3.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This
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manual page was written by
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.An Nicolas Souchu .
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