On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:46:42PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> Mainly as neither i2c nor SMBus (AFAIK) are hot-swap busses; every chip on
> there the board maker put there. I think the fact that the board maker
> wants all the chips to be useful (or more to the point doesn't want to
> wast money on useless chips) ensures that we won't encounter a case where
> functionality we want from the i2c bus can't be had since it's on an SMBus
> controller w/o a bit banger.

FWIW, some of my PC motherboards have jumper blocks labelled "SMBUS", and
I have other devices in my machines (e.g. the thermal sensor/fan controller
in my SCA disk cage) that I could at least theoretically plug in to the
motherboard's SMBus, if I had appropriate wiring.

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   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
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 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud