SMBUS(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual SMBUS(4) NAME smbus -- System Management Bus SYNOPSIS device smbus device iicsmb DESCRIPTION The smbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices and to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, vm86...). System Management Bus The System Management Bus is a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate with rest of the system. It uses I2C as its backbone (see iicbus(4)). A system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping individual control lines. With the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the system what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event, report different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its status. The SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus components provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided be- tween the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices. SEE ALSO iicbus(4), iicsmb(4), smb(4) The SMBus specification, http://www.smbus.org/specs/. HISTORY The smbus manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. AUTHORS This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu. FreeBSD 15.1 March 7, 2021 SMBUS(4)
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