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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:08:24 +0200
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>
To:        dgilbert@velocet.ca
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: smbus not quite right?
Message-ID:  <19990724180824.18086@breizh.teaser.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199907190324.XAA08403@strike.velocet.ca>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:24:05PM -0400
References:  <199907190324.XAA08403@strike.velocet.ca>

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On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:24:05PM -0400, dgilbert@velocet.ca wrote:
>
>I have a machine with a P5A motherboard, which probes as follows:
>
>pcf0: <PCF8584 I2C bus controller>
>iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on pcf0 addr 0xaa
>iicsmb0: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus0
>smbus0: <System Management Bus> on iicsmb0
>smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0
>iic0: <I2C general purpose I/O> on iicbus0
>
>Now... If I run mbmon in ISA mode, which opens /dev/io, it works.  If
>I run it in in smbus mode, which opens /dev/smb0, it fails.  Having
>read the documentation on /dev/io, I'd rather not have that ability on 
>a server... I would guess that it requires an insecure level.

Whats mbmon? You have actually a Philips PCF8584 connected to your ISA bus?

>
>So... any ideas?
>
>Dave.
>
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