1I2CGET(8) System Manager's Manual I2CGET(8)
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6 i2cget - read from I2C/SMBus chip registers
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10 i2cget [-f] [-y] i2cbus chip-address [data-address [mode]]
11 i2cget -V
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15 i2cget is a small helper program to read registers visible through the
16 I2C bus (or SMBus).
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20 -V Display the version and exit.
21 -f Force access to the device even if it is already busy. By
23 default, i2cget will refuse to access a device which is already
24 under the control of a kernel driver. Using this flag is danger‐
25 ous, it can seriously confuse the kernel driver in question. It
26 can also cause i2cget to return an invalid value. So use at your
27 own risk and only if you know what you're doing.
28 -y Disable interactive mode. By default, i2cget will wait for a
30 confirmation from the user before messing with the I2C bus. When
31 this flag is used, it will perform the operation directly. This
32 is mainly meant to be used in scripts. Use with caution.
33 There are two required options to i2cget. i2cbus indicates the number
35 or name of the I2C bus to be scanned. This number should correspond to
36 one of the busses listed by i2cdetect -l. chip-address specifies the
37 address of the chip on that bus, and is an integer between 0x03 and
38 0x77.
39 data-address specifies the address on that chip to read from, and is an
41 integer between 0x00 and 0xFF. If omitted, the currently active regis‐
42 ter will be read (if that makes sense for the considered chip).
43 The mode parameter, if specified, is one of the letters b, w or c, cor‐
45 responding to a read byte data, a read word data or a write byte/read
46 byte transaction, respectively. A p can also be appended to the mode
47 parameter to enable PEC. If the mode parameter is omitted, i2cget
48 defaults to a read byte data transaction, unless data-address is also
49 omitted, in which case the default (and only valid) transaction is a
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54 i2cget can be extremely dangerous if used improperly. I2C and SMBus are
55 designed in such a way that an SMBus read transaction can be seen as a
56 write transaction by certain chips. This is particularly true if set‐
57 ting mode to cp (write byte/read byte with PEC). Be extremely careful
58 using this program.
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62 i2cdump(8), i2cset(8)
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66 Jean Delvare
67 This manual page was strongly inspired from those written by David Z
69 Maze for i2cset.
70 May 2008 I2CGET(8)