FreeBSD sees only one I2C device, while Linux sees two.

Gleb Popov arrowd at freebsd.org
Wed May 8 17:03:55 UTC 2019


On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:41 PM Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 08/05/2019 11:47, Gleb Popov wrote:
> > Right, kldloading smb created /dev/smb0 on smbus0.
> > But on Linux i2c-detect can send commands to both devices. I need to get
> iic1
> > from smb0 somehow, I guess?
>
> smbus is "narrower" than i2c. That's why iicsmb (smbus on top of i2c)
> exists,
> but the opposite does not.
> Maybe you can describe what you want to achieve in the end.
> It may make it easier to see how to do it, if possible at all.
>

Nope, just being curious. Thanks for explanation, your replies cleared up
things a bit for me.


> --
> Andriy Gapon
>


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