4 The following is a summary of the SMBus protocol. It applies to
5 all revisions of the protocol (1.0, 1.1, and 2.0).
6 Certain protocol features which are not supported by
7 this package are briefly described at the end of this document.
9 Some adapters understand only the SMBus (System Management Bus) protocol,
10 which is a subset from the I2C protocol. Fortunately, many devices use
11 only the same subset, which makes it possible to put them on an SMBus.
13 If you write a driver for some I2C device, please try to use the SMBus
14 commands if at all possible (if the device uses only that subset of the
15 I2C protocol). This makes it possible to use the device driver on both
16 SMBus adapters and I2C adapters (the SMBus command set is automatically
17 translated to I2C on I2C adapters, but plain I2C commands can not be
18 handled at all on most pure SMBus adapters).
20 Below is a list of SMBus protocol operations, and the functions executing
21 them. Note that the names used in the SMBus protocol specifications usually
22 don't match these function names. For some of the operations which pass a
23 single data byte, the functions using SMBus protocol operation names execute
24 a different protocol operation entirely.
26 Each transaction type corresponds to a functionality flag. Before calling a
27 transaction function, a device driver should always check (just once) for
28 the corresponding functionality flag to ensure that the underlying I2C
29 adapter supports the transaction in question. See
30 <file:Documentation/i2c/functionality> for the details.
38 Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0.
39 A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit.
40 Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to
41 get a 10 bit I2C address.
42 Comm (8 bits): Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on
44 Data (8 bits): A plain data byte. Sometimes, I write DataLow, DataHigh
46 Count (8 bits): A data byte containing the length of a block operation.
48 [..]: Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the host adapter.
54 This sends a single bit to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit.
58 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK
61 SMBus Receive Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte()
62 ==========================================
64 This reads a single byte from a device, without specifying a device
65 register. Some devices are so simple that this interface is enough; for
66 others, it is a shorthand if you want to read the same register as in
67 the previous SMBus command.
69 S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
71 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE
74 SMBus Send Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte()
75 ========================================
77 This operation is the reverse of Receive Byte: it sends a single byte
78 to a device. See Receive Byte for more information.
80 S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P
82 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE
85 SMBus Read Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte_data()
86 ============================================
88 This reads a single byte from a device, from a designated register.
89 The register is specified through the Comm byte.
91 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
93 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA
96 SMBus Read Word: i2c_smbus_read_word_data()
97 ============================================
99 This operation is very like Read Byte; again, data is read from a
100 device, from a designated register that is specified through the Comm
101 byte. But this time, the data is a complete word (16 bits).
103 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P
105 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_WORD_DATA
107 Note the convenience function i2c_smbus_read_word_swapped is
108 available for reads where the two data bytes are the other way
109 around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
112 SMBus Write Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte_data()
113 ==============================================
115 This writes a single byte to a device, to a designated register. The
116 register is specified through the Comm byte. This is the opposite of
117 the Read Byte operation.
119 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] P
121 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE_DATA
124 SMBus Write Word: i2c_smbus_write_word_data()
125 ==============================================
127 This is the opposite of the Read Word operation. 16 bits
128 of data is written to a device, to the designated register that is
129 specified through the Comm byte.
131 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A] P
133 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_WORD_DATA
135 Note the convenience function i2c_smbus_write_word_swapped is
136 available for writes where the two data bytes are the other way
137 around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
143 This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
144 16 bits of data to it, and reads 16 bits of data in return.
146 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A]
147 S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P
149 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_PROC_CALL
152 SMBus Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_block_data()
153 ==============================================
155 This command reads a block of up to 32 bytes from a device, from a
156 designated register that is specified through the Comm byte. The amount
157 of data is specified by the device in the Count byte.
159 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A]
160 S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P
162 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BLOCK_DATA
165 SMBus Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
166 ================================================
168 The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes up to 32 bytes to
169 a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
170 Comm byte. The amount of data is specified in the Count byte.
172 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
174 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BLOCK_DATA
177 SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call
178 ===========================================
180 SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call was introduced in
181 Revision 2.0 of the specification.
183 This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
184 1 to 31 bytes of data to it, and reads 1 to 31 bytes of data in return.
186 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] ...
187 S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] ... A P
189 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL
195 This command is sent from a SMBus device acting as a master to the
196 SMBus host acting as a slave.
197 It is the same form as Write Word, with the command code replaced by the
198 alerting device's address.
200 [S] [HostAddr] [Wr] A [DevAddr] A [DataLow] A [DataHigh] A [P]
202 This is implemented in the following way in the Linux kernel:
203 * I2C bus drivers which support SMBus Host Notify should call
204 i2c_setup_smbus_host_notify() to setup SMBus Host Notify support.
205 * I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus Host Notify should implement
206 the optional alert() callback.
209 Packet Error Checking (PEC)
210 ===========================
212 Packet Error Checking was introduced in Revision 1.1 of the specification.
214 PEC adds a CRC-8 error-checking byte to transfers using it, immediately
215 before the terminating STOP.
218 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
219 =================================
221 The Address Resolution Protocol was introduced in Revision 2.0 of
222 the specification. It is a higher-layer protocol which uses the
225 ARP adds device enumeration and dynamic address assignment to
226 the protocol. All ARP communications use slave address 0x61 and
227 require PEC checksums.
233 SMBus Alert was introduced in Revision 1.0 of the specification.
235 The SMBus alert protocol allows several SMBus slave devices to share a
236 single interrupt pin on the SMBus master, while still allowing the master
237 to know which slave triggered the interrupt.
239 This is implemented the following way in the Linux kernel:
240 * I2C bus drivers which support SMBus alert should call
241 i2c_setup_smbus_alert() to setup SMBus alert support.
242 * I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus alerts should implement
243 the optional alert() callback.
246 I2C Block Transactions
247 ======================
249 The following I2C block transactions are supported by the
250 SMBus layer and are described here for completeness.
251 They are *NOT* defined by the SMBus specification.
253 I2C block transactions do not limit the number of bytes transferred
254 but the SMBus layer places a limit of 32 bytes.
257 I2C Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data()
258 ================================================
260 This command reads a block of bytes from a device, from a
261 designated register that is specified through the Comm byte.
263 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A]
264 S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P
266 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK
269 I2C Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data()
270 ==================================================
272 The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes bytes to
273 a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
274 Comm byte. Note that command lengths of 0, 2, or more bytes are
275 supported as they are indistinguishable from data.
277 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
279 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_I2C_BLOCK