1.\" Copyright (c) 1998, Nicolas Souchu 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/smbus.4,v 1.9.2.3 2001/08/17 13:08:39 ru Exp $ 26.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man4/smbus.4,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:36:59 dillon Exp $ 27.\" 28.Dd August 10, 1998 29.Dt SMBUS 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm smbus 33.Nd System Management Bus 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Cd "device smbus" 36.Pp 37.Cd "device iicsmb" 38.Cd "device bktr" 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Em smbus 42system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent 43system for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices 44and to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, Brooktree848, vm86...). 45.Sh System Management Bus 46The 47.Em System Management Bus 48is a two-wire interface through which simple power-related chips can communicate 49with rest of the system. 50It uses I2C as its backbone (see 51.Xr iicbus 4 ) . 52.Pp 53A system using SMB passes messages to and from devices instead of tripping 54individual control lines. 55.Pp 56With the SMBus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the 57system what its model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event, 58report different types of errors, accept control parameters, and return its 59status. 60.Pp 61The SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus 62components provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided 63between the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices. 64.Sh SEE ALSO 65.Xr bktr 4 , 66.Xr iicbus 4 , 67.Xr iicsmb 4 , 68.Xr smb 4 69.Sh HISTORY 70The 71.Nm 72manual page first appeared in 73.Fx 3.0 . 74.Sh AUTHORS 75This 76manual page was written by 77.An Nicolas Souchu . 78