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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-02 01:59:17 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-02 01:59:17 +0000
commit300bc52f898f0b258312613a27833da044509347 (patch)
tree32a33a65920f43042dbedf022c66447dc57d2aa9 /share
parentd45b66087c747ba180951d66880a5d908f5a109a (diff)
document macppc and sparc64 use prom instead of scanning
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/iic.410
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/iic.4 b/share/man/man4/iic.4
index cc5c22e4f05..ee4ddb0f7aa 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/iic.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/iic.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: iic.4,v 1.26 2006/01/01 23:33:47 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: iic.4,v 1.27 2006/01/02 01:59:16 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ All
.Tn I2C
slave devices are uniquely identified by the address on the bus.
The master accesses a particular slave device using its address.
-Device addresses should be specified in the kernel configuration file
-with the
-.Cd addr
-locator.
+Devices are found on the bus using a sophisticated scanning routine
+which attempts to identify commonly available devices.
+On other machines (such as sparc64 and macppc) where the machine ROM
+supplies a list of i2c devices, that list is used instead.
.Pp
System Management Bus (SMBus) protocol is also supported by emulating
it with the