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Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd February 28, 2018 .Dt IMCSMB 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm imcsmb .Nd Intel integrated Memory Controller (iMC) SMBus controller driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd imc* at pci? dev ? func ? .Cd imcsmb* at imc? .Cd iic* at i2cbus? .Pp Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in .Xr boot.cfg 5 : .Pp .Dl load=imcsmb .Pp or add the following line to your /etc/modules file: .Pp .Dl imcsmb .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides .Xr iic 4 support for the SMBus controller functionality in the integrated Memory Controllers (iMCs) embedded in Intel Sandybridge-Xeon, Ivybridge-Xeon, Haswell-Xeon, and Broadwell-Xeon CPUs. Each CPU implements one or more iMCs, depending on the number of cores; each iMC implements two SMBus controllers (iMC-SMBs). The iMC-SMBs are used by the iMCs to read configuration information from the DIMMs during POST. They may also be used, by motherboard firmware or a BMC, to monitor the temperature of the DIMMs. .Pp The iMC-SMBs are .Sy not general-purpose SMBus controllers. By their nature, they are only ever attached to DIMMs, so they implement only the SMBus operations needed for communicating with DIMMs. Specifically: .Pp .Bl -dash -offset indent -compact .It READB .It READW .It WRITEB .It WRITEW .El .Pp A more detailed discussion of the hardware and driver architecture can be found at the top of .Pa sys/dev/imcsmb/imc.c . .Sh WARNINGS As mentioned above, firmware might use the iMC-SMBs to read DIMM temperatures. The public iMC documentation does not describe any sort of coordination mechanism to prevent requests from different sources \(em such as the motherboard firmware, a BMC, or the operating system \(em from interfering with each other. .Pp .Bf Sy Therefore, it is highly recommended that developers contact the motherboard vendor for any board-specific instructions on how to disable and re-enable DIMM temperature monitoring. .Ef .Pp DIMM temperature monitoring should be disabled before returning from .Fn imcsmb_pci_request_bus , and re-enabled before returning from .Fn imcsmb_pci_release_bus . The driver includes comments to that effect at the appropriate locations. The driver has been tested and shown to work, with only that type of modification, on certain motherboards from Intel. (Unfortunately, those modifications were based on material covered under a non-disclosure agreement, and therefore are not included in this driver.) The driver has also been tested and shown to work as-is on various motherboards from SuperMicro and ASUS. .Pp Because of the above, the .Nm driver is not included in the default .Dv GENERIC kernel. In order to use the .Nm driver, you must compile a custom kernel, or load the driver using .Xr modload 8 . .Pp The .Xr iic 4 driver will connect to the i2cbus instances created by .Nm . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr iic 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 12.0 . It was later ported to .Nx 9.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was originally written for Panasas by .An Joe Kloss . It was substantially refactored, and this manual page was written, by .An Ravi Pokala Aq Mt rpokala@freebsd.org . It was adapted to .Nx by .An Paul Goyette Aq Mt pgoyette@NetBSD.org .