ig4(4)

ig44

Synopsys designware i2c controller

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into the kernel configuration file:

device ig4 device iicbus

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

ig4_load="YES"

Overview

The ig4 driver provides access to peripherals attached to an I2C controller.

Hardware

ig4 supports the I2C controllers based on Synopsys DesignWare IP that can be found in Intel(R) Core(TM) processors starting from the fourth generation, Intel(R) Bay Trail, Apollo Lake SoC families, and some AMD systems.

Sysctl variables

These sysctl(8) variables are available:

debug.ig4_dump

This sysctl is a zero-based bit mask. When any of the bits are set, a register dump is printed for every I2C transfer on an ig4 device with the same unit number.

Releases

25 releases since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE; the text changed 11 times.

  1. 11.0
  2. 11.1
  3. 11.2
  4. 11.3
  5. 11.4
  6. 12.0
  7. 12.1
  8. 12.2
  9. 12.3
  10. 12.4
  11. 13.0–13.2
  12. 13.3–16.0

Authors

The ig4 driver was written for DragonFly by Matthew Dillon and subsequently ported to FreeBSD by Michael Gmelin ⟨[email protected]⟩.

This manual page was written by Michael Gmelin ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.