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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:40:58 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: SMBus controller
Message-ID:  <20140625104058.GA28406@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140614193918.GH2341@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <1402772923.1120.13.camel@bruno> <20140614193918.GH2341@home.opsec.eu>

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On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 09:39:18PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Bus
> 
> You can read some system status values (CPU temp etc).
> 
> In the ports, check sysutils/xmbmon or sysutils/healthd
> whether it detects anything.

It can also be used to talk to one's computer memory (sysutils/i2c-tools),
something like this:

  # kldload smb.ko ichsmb.ko
  # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/i2c-tools && make extract
  # perl work/i2c-tools-3.1.0/eeprom/decode-dimms

./danfe



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