ecadc(4)

ecadc4

Environmental monitoring subsystem temperature sensor

Usage

ecadc* at iic?

Overview

The ecadc driver supports the PCF8591 I2C analog to digital converter that is part of the environmental monitoring subsystem found on the Sun Enterprise 250 and Sun Enterprise 450 systems. The temperature readings are made available through the sysctl(8) interface.

The driver reads up to four A/D lines configured as temperature inputs. Sensor names, type and calibration information are read from OpenFirmware.

History

The ecadc driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.3.

Authors

The ecadc driver was written by Mark Kettenis ⟨[email protected]⟩ based on the pcfadc(4) driver written by Damien Miller ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.