1 PMBus core driver and internal API
2 ==================================
7 [from pmbus.org] The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is an open standard
8 power-management protocol with a fully defined command language that facilitates
9 communication with power converters and other devices in a power system. The
10 protocol is implemented over the industry-standard SMBus serial interface and
11 enables programming, control, and real-time monitoring of compliant power
12 conversion products. This flexible and highly versatile standard allows for
13 communication between devices based on both analog and digital technologies, and
14 provides true interoperability which will reduce design complexity and shorten
15 time to market for power system designers. Pioneered by leading power supply and
16 semiconductor companies, this open power system standard is maintained and
17 promoted by the PMBus Implementers Forum (PMBus-IF), comprising 30+ adopters
18 with the objective to provide support to, and facilitate adoption among, users.
20 Unfortunately, while PMBus commands are standardized, there are no mandatory
21 commands, and manufacturers can add as many non-standard commands as they like.
22 Also, different PMBUs devices act differently if non-supported commands are
23 executed. Some devices return an error, some devices return 0xff or 0xffff and
24 set a status error flag, and some devices may simply hang up.
26 Despite all those difficulties, a generic PMBus device driver is still useful
27 and supported since kernel version 2.6.39. However, it was necessary to support
28 device specific extensions in addition to the core PMBus driver, since it is
29 simply unknown what new device specific functionality PMBus device developers
32 To make device specific extensions as scalable as possible, and to avoid having
33 to modify the core PMBus driver repeatedly for new devices, the PMBus driver was
34 split into core, generic, and device specific code. The core code (in
35 pmbus_core.c) provides generic functionality. The generic code (in pmbus.c)
36 provides support for generic PMBus devices. Device specific code is responsible
37 for device specific initialization and, if needed, maps device specific
38 functionality into generic functionality. This is to some degree comparable
39 to PCI code, where generic code is augmented as needed with quirks for all kinds
42 PMBus device capabilities auto-detection
43 ========================================
45 For generic PMBus devices, code in pmbus.c attempts to auto-detect all supported
46 PMBus commands. Auto-detection is somewhat limited, since there are simply too
47 many variables to consider. For example, it is almost impossible to autodetect
48 which PMBus commands are paged and which commands are replicated across all
49 pages (see the PMBus specification for details on multi-page PMBus devices).
51 For this reason, it often makes sense to provide a device specific driver if not
52 all commands can be auto-detected. The data structures in this driver can be
53 used to inform the core driver about functionality supported by individual
56 Some commands are always auto-detected. This applies to all limit commands
57 (lcrit, min, max, and crit attributes) as well as associated alarm attributes.
58 Limits and alarm attributes are auto-detected because there are simply too many
59 possible combinations to provide a manual configuration interface.
64 The API between core and device specific PMBus code is defined in
65 drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h. In addition to the internal API, pmbus.h defines
66 standard PMBus commands and virtual PMBus commands.
68 Standard PMBus commands
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71 Standard PMBus commands (commands values 0x00 to 0xff) are defined in the PMBUs
74 Virtual PMBus commands
75 ----------------------
77 Virtual PMBus commands are provided to enable support for non-standard
78 functionality which has been implemented by several chip vendors and is thus
81 Virtual PMBus commands start with command value 0x100 and can thus easily be
82 distinguished from standard PMBus commands (which can not have values larger
83 than 0xff). Support for virtual PMBus commands is device specific and thus has
84 to be implemented in device specific code.
86 Virtual commands are named PMBUS_VIRT_xxx and start with PMBUS_VIRT_BASE. All
87 virtual commands are word sized.
89 There are currently two types of virtual commands.
91 - READ commands are read-only; writes are either ignored or return an error.
92 - RESET commands are read/write. Reading reset registers returns zero
93 (used for detection), writing any value causes the associated history to be
96 Virtual commands have to be handled in device specific driver code. Chip driver
97 code returns non-negative values if a virtual command is supported, or a
98 negative error code if not. The chip driver may return -ENODATA or any other
99 Linux error code in this case, though an error code other than -ENODATA is
100 handled more efficiently and thus preferred. Either case, the calling PMBus
101 core code will abort if the chip driver returns an error code when reading
102 or writing virtual registers (in other words, the PMBus core code will never
103 send a virtual command to a chip).
105 PMBus driver information
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108 PMBus driver information, defined in struct pmbus_driver_info, is the main means
109 for device specific drivers to pass information to the core PMBus driver.
110 Specifically, it provides the following information.
112 - For devices supporting its data in Direct Data Format, it provides coefficients
113 for converting register values into normalized data. This data is usually
114 provided by chip manufacturers in device datasheets.
115 - Supported chip functionality can be provided to the core driver. This may be
116 necessary for chips which react badly if non-supported commands are executed,
117 and/or to speed up device detection and initialization.
118 - Several function entry points are provided to support overriding and/or
119 augmenting generic command execution. This functionality can be used to map
120 non-standard PMBus commands to standard commands, or to augment standard
121 command return values with device specific information.
126 Functions provided by chip driver
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129 All functions return the command return value (read) or zero (write) if
130 successful. A return value of -ENODATA indicates that there is no manufacturer
131 specific command, but that a standard PMBus command may exist. Any other
132 negative return value indicates that the commands does not exist for this
133 chip, and that no attempt should be made to read or write the standard
136 As mentioned above, an exception to this rule applies to virtual commands,
137 which _must_ be handled in driver specific code. See "Virtual PMBus Commands"
138 above for more details.
140 Command execution in the core PMBus driver code is as follows.
142 if (chip_access_function) {
143 status = chip_access_function();
144 if (status != -ENODATA)
147 if (command >= PMBUS_VIRT_BASE) /* For word commands/registers only */
149 return generic_access();
151 Chip drivers may provide pointers to the following functions in struct
152 pmbus_driver_info. All functions are optional.
154 int (*read_byte_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
156 Read byte from page <page>, register <reg>.
157 <page> may be -1, which means "current page".
159 int (*read_word_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
161 Read word from page <page>, register <reg>.
163 int (*write_word_data)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg,
166 Write word to page <page>, register <reg>.
168 int (*write_byte)(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 value);
170 Write byte to page <page>, register <reg>.
171 <page> may be -1, which means "current page".
173 int (*identify)(struct i2c_client *client, struct pmbus_driver_info *info);
175 Determine supported PMBus functionality. This function is only necessary
176 if a chip driver supports multiple chips, and the chip functionality is not
177 pre-determined. It is currently only used by the generic pmbus driver
180 Functions exported by core driver
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183 Chip drivers are expected to use the following functions to read or write
184 PMBus registers. Chip drivers may also use direct I2C commands. If direct I2C
185 commands are used, the chip driver code must not directly modify the current
186 page, since the selected page is cached in the core driver and the core driver
187 will assume that it is selected. Using pmbus_set_page() to select a new page
190 int pmbus_set_page(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page);
192 Set PMBus page register to <page> for subsequent commands.
194 int pmbus_read_word_data(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page, u8 reg);
196 Read word data from <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_read_word_data(), but
199 int pmbus_write_word_data(struct i2c_client *client, u8 page, u8 reg,
202 Write word data to <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_write_word_data(), but
205 int pmbus_read_byte_data(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 reg);
207 Read byte data from <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), but
208 selects page first. <page> may be -1, which means "current page".
210 int pmbus_write_byte(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 value);
212 Write byte data to <page>, <reg>. Similar to i2c_smbus_write_byte(), but
213 selects page first. <page> may be -1, which means "current page".
215 void pmbus_clear_faults(struct i2c_client *client);
217 Execute PMBus "Clear Fault" command on all chip pages.
218 This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined.
219 Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function.
221 bool pmbus_check_byte_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
223 Check if byte register exists. Return true if the register exists, false
225 This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined to
226 obtain the chip status. Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function.
228 bool pmbus_check_word_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
230 Check if word register exists. Return true if the register exists, false
232 This function calls the device specific write_byte function if defined to
233 obtain the chip status. Therefore, it must _not_ be called from that function.
235 int pmbus_do_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id,
236 struct pmbus_driver_info *info);
238 Execute probe function. Similar to standard probe function for other drivers,
239 with the pointer to struct pmbus_driver_info as additional argument. Calls
240 identify function if supported. Must only be called from device probe
243 void pmbus_do_remove(struct i2c_client *client);
245 Execute driver remove function. Similar to standard driver remove function.
247 const struct pmbus_driver_info
248 *pmbus_get_driver_info(struct i2c_client *client);
250 Return pointer to struct pmbus_driver_info as passed to pmbus_do_probe().
253 PMBus driver platform data
254 ==========================
256 PMBus platform data is defined in include/linux/pmbus.h. Platform data
257 currently only provides a flag field with a single bit used.
259 #define PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK (1 << 0)
261 struct pmbus_platform_data {
262 u32 flags; /* Device specific flags */
269 PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK
271 During register detection, skip checking the status register for
272 communication or command errors.
274 Some PMBus chips respond with valid data when trying to read an unsupported
275 register. For such chips, checking the status register is mandatory when
276 trying to determine if a chip register exists or not.
277 Other PMBus chips don't support the STATUS_CML register, or report
278 communication errors for no explicable reason. For such chips, checking the
279 status register must be disabled.
281 Some i2c controllers do not support single-byte commands (write commands with
282 no data, i2c_smbus_write_byte()). With such controllers, clearing the status
283 register is impossible, and the PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK flag must be set.