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SMB(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual SMB(4) NAME smb -- System Management Bus (SMBus) generic I/O device driver SYNOPSIS device smb DESCRIPTION The smb character device driver provides generic I/O to any smbus(4) in- stance. To control SMB devices, use /dev/smb? with the ioctls described below. Any of these ioctl commands takes a pointer to struct smbcmd as its argument. #include <sys/types.h> struct smbcmd { u_char cmd; u_char reserved; u_short op; union { char byte; char buf[2]; short word; } wdata; union { char byte; char buf[2]; short word; } rdata; int slave; char *wbuf; /* use wdata if NULL */ int wcount; char *rbuf; /* use rdata if NULL */ int rcount; }; The slave field is always used, and provides the address of the SMBus slave device. The slave address is specified in the seven most significant bits (i.e., "left-justified"). The least significant bit of the slave address must be zero. Ioctl Description SMB_QUICK_WRITE QuickWrite does not transfer any data. It just issues the device address with write intent to the bus. SMB_QUICK_READ QuickRead does not transfer any data. It just issues the device address with read intent to the bus. SMB_SENDB SendByte sends the byte provided in cmd to the device. SMB_RECVB ReceiveByte reads a single byte from the device which is returned in cmd. SMB_WRITEB WriteByte first sends the byte from cmd to the device, followed by the byte given in wdata.byte. SMB_WRITEW WriteWord first sends the byte from cmd to the device, followed by the word given in wdata.word. Note that the SMBus byte-order is little-endian by definition. SMB_READB ReadByte first sends the byte from cmd to the device, then reads one byte of data from the device. Returned data is stored in rdata.byte. SMB_READW ReadWord first sends the byte from cmd to the device, then reads one word of data from the device. Returned data is stored in rdata.word. SMB_PCALL ProcedureCall first sends the byte from cmd to the de- vice, followed by the word provided in wdata.word. It then reads one word of data from the device and returns it in rdata.word. SMB_BWRITE BlockWrite first sends the byte from cmd to the device, then the byte from wcount followed by wcount bytes of data that are taken from the buffer pointed to by wbuf. The SMBus specification mandates that no more than 32 bytes of data can be transferred in a single block read or write command. This value can be read from the con- stant SMB_MAXBLOCKSIZE. SMB_BREAD BlockRead first sends the byte from cmd to the device, then reads a count of data bytes that the device is go- ing to provide and then reads that many bytes. The count is returned in rcount. The data is returned in the buffer pointed to by rbuf. The read(2) and write(2) system calls are not implemented by this driver. ERRORS The ioctl(2) commands can cause the following driver-specific errors: [ENXIO] Device did not respond to selection. [EBUSY] Device still in use. [ENODEV] Operation not supported by device (not supposed to hap- pen). [EINVAL] General argument error. [EWOULDBLOCK] SMBus transaction timed out. SEE ALSO ioctl(2), smbus(4) HISTORY The smb manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. AUTHORS This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu and extended by Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly April 25, 2015 SMB(4)
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