1smbus(7D) Devices smbus(7D)
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6 smbus - System Management Bus controller driver
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9 The smbus driver is a I2C (Inter IC) nexus driver that allows the sys‐
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11 two-wire control bus based on the I2C protocol through which systems
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25 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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30 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
31 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
32 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
33 │Availability │SUNWcarx │
34 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
35 │Architecture │SPARC │
36 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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45 System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification 2.0 — SBS Implementation
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49 The I2C Bus and How To Use It —Philips Semiconductor Document #
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54SunOS 5.11 23 July 2003 smbus(7D)