5 The following is a summary of the SMBus protocol. It applies to
6 all revisions of the protocol (1.0, 1.1, and 2.0).
7 Certain protocol features which are not supported by
8 this package are briefly described at the end of this document.
10 Some adapters understand only the SMBus (System Management Bus) protocol,
11 which is a subset from the I2C protocol. Fortunately, many devices use
12 only the same subset, which makes it possible to put them on an SMBus.
14 If you write a driver for some I2C device, please try to use the SMBus
15 commands if at all possible (if the device uses only that subset of the
16 I2C protocol). This makes it possible to use the device driver on both
17 SMBus adapters and I2C adapters (the SMBus command set is automatically
18 translated to I2C on I2C adapters, but plain I2C commands can not be
19 handled at all on most pure SMBus adapters).
21 Below is a list of SMBus protocol operations, and the functions executing
22 them. Note that the names used in the SMBus protocol specifications usually
23 don't match these function names. For some of the operations which pass a
24 single data byte, the functions using SMBus protocol operation names execute
25 a different protocol operation entirely.
27 Each transaction type corresponds to a functionality flag. Before calling a
28 transaction function, a device driver should always check (just once) for
29 the corresponding functionality flag to ensure that the underlying I2C
30 adapter supports the transaction in question. See :doc:`functionality` for
37 =============== =============================================================
40 Rd/Wr (1 bit) Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0.
41 A, NA (1 bit) Acknowledge (ACK) and Not Acknowledge (NACK) bit
42 Addr (7 bits) I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to
43 get a 10 bit I2C address.
44 Comm (8 bits) Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on
46 Data (8 bits) A plain data byte. Sometimes, I write DataLow, DataHigh
48 Count (8 bits) A data byte containing the length of a block operation.
50 [..] Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the host
52 =============== =============================================================
58 This sends a single bit to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit::
62 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK
68 Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_byte()
70 This reads a single byte from a device, without specifying a device
71 register. Some devices are so simple that this interface is enough; for
72 others, it is a shorthand if you want to read the same register as in
73 the previous SMBus command::
75 S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
77 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE
83 Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_byte()
85 This operation is the reverse of Receive Byte: it sends a single byte
86 to a device. See Receive Byte for more information.
90 S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P
92 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE
98 Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_byte_data()
100 This reads a single byte from a device, from a designated register.
101 The register is specified through the Comm byte::
103 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
105 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA
111 Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_word_data()
113 This operation is very like Read Byte; again, data is read from a
114 device, from a designated register that is specified through the Comm
115 byte. But this time, the data is a complete word (16 bits)::
117 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P
119 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_WORD_DATA
121 Note the convenience function i2c_smbus_read_word_swapped() is
122 available for reads where the two data bytes are the other way
123 around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
129 Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_byte_data()
131 This writes a single byte to a device, to a designated register. The
132 register is specified through the Comm byte. This is the opposite of
133 the Read Byte operation.
137 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] P
139 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE_DATA
145 Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_word_data()
147 This is the opposite of the Read Word operation. 16 bits
148 of data are written to a device, to the designated register that is
149 specified through the Comm byte::
151 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A] P
153 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_WORD_DATA
155 Note the convenience function i2c_smbus_write_word_swapped() is
156 available for writes where the two data bytes are the other way
157 around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
163 This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
164 16 bits of data to it, and reads 16 bits of data in return::
166 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] DataLow [A] DataHigh [A]
167 S Addr Rd [A] [DataLow] A [DataHigh] NA P
169 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_PROC_CALL
175 Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_block_data()
177 This command reads a block of up to 32 bytes from a device, from a
178 designated register that is specified through the Comm byte. The amount
179 of data is specified by the device in the Count byte.
183 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A]
184 S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P
186 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BLOCK_DATA
192 Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
194 The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes up to 32 bytes to
195 a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
196 Comm byte. The amount of data is specified in the Count byte.
200 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
202 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BLOCK_DATA
205 SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call
206 ===========================================
208 SMBus Block Write - Block Read Process Call was introduced in
209 Revision 2.0 of the specification.
211 This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
212 1 to 31 bytes of data to it, and reads 1 to 31 bytes of data in return::
214 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Count [A] Data [A] ...
215 S Addr Rd [A] [Count] A [Data] ... A P
217 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL
223 This command is sent from a SMBus device acting as a master to the
224 SMBus host acting as a slave.
225 It is the same form as Write Word, with the command code replaced by the
226 alerting device's address.
230 [S] [HostAddr] [Wr] A [DevAddr] A [DataLow] A [DataHigh] A [P]
232 This is implemented in the following way in the Linux kernel:
234 * I2C bus drivers which support SMBus Host Notify should report
235 I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY.
236 * I2C bus drivers trigger SMBus Host Notify by a call to
237 i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify().
238 * I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus Host Notify will have
239 client->irq assigned to a Host Notify IRQ if noone else specified an other.
241 There is currently no way to retrieve the data parameter from the client.
244 Packet Error Checking (PEC)
245 ===========================
247 Packet Error Checking was introduced in Revision 1.1 of the specification.
249 PEC adds a CRC-8 error-checking byte to transfers using it, immediately
250 before the terminating STOP.
253 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
254 =================================
256 The Address Resolution Protocol was introduced in Revision 2.0 of
257 the specification. It is a higher-layer protocol which uses the
260 ARP adds device enumeration and dynamic address assignment to
261 the protocol. All ARP communications use slave address 0x61 and
262 require PEC checksums.
268 SMBus Alert was introduced in Revision 1.0 of the specification.
270 The SMBus alert protocol allows several SMBus slave devices to share a
271 single interrupt pin on the SMBus master, while still allowing the master
272 to know which slave triggered the interrupt.
274 This is implemented the following way in the Linux kernel:
276 * I2C bus drivers which support SMBus alert should call
277 i2c_new_smbus_alert_device() to install SMBus alert support.
278 * I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus alerts should implement
279 the optional alert() callback.
282 I2C Block Transactions
283 ======================
285 The following I2C block transactions are similar to the SMBus Block Read
286 and Write operations, except these do not have a Count byte. They are
287 supported by the SMBus layer and are described here for completeness, but
288 they are *NOT* defined by the SMBus specification.
290 I2C block transactions do not limit the number of bytes transferred
291 but the SMBus layer places a limit of 32 bytes.
297 Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data()
299 This command reads a block of bytes from a device, from a
300 designated register that is specified through the Comm byte::
302 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A]
303 S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P
305 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK
311 Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data()
313 The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes bytes to
314 a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
315 Comm byte. Note that command lengths of 0, 2, or more bytes are
316 supported as they are indistinguishable from data.
320 S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
322 Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_I2C_BLOCK