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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2017-05-17 11:59:38 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet | 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -0600 |
| commit | 7effa5b0e8feab19e723db4d072d8c65d4cdafa3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9bf01fd2a2ee86a50339e293faccbe4162b97c2d /Documentation/dcdbas.txt | |
| parent | 2e4e6f30f7ff84632e893786fab5e8ff44ff3e03 (diff) | |
dcdbas.txt: standardize document format
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!
Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:
- Mark titles;
- Mark literal blocks;
- Mark table.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dcdbas.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dcdbas.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dcdbas.txt b/Documentation/dcdbas.txt index e1c52e2dc361..309cc57a7c1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/dcdbas.txt +++ b/Documentation/dcdbas.txt @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ +=================================== +Dell Systems Management Base Driver +=================================== + Overview +======== The Dell Systems Management Base Driver provides a sysfs interface for systems management software such as Dell OpenManage to perform system @@ -17,6 +22,7 @@ more information about the libsmbios project. System Management Interrupt +=========================== On some Dell systems, systems management software must access certain management information via a system management interrupt (SMI). The SMI data @@ -24,12 +30,12 @@ buffer must reside in 32-bit address space, and the physical address of the buffer is required for the SMI. The driver maintains the memory required for the SMI and provides a way for the application to generate the SMI. The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management -software to perform these system management interrupts: +software to perform these system management interrupts:: -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_phys_addr -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_size -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_request + /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data + /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_phys_addr + /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_size + /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_request Systems management software must perform the following steps to execute a SMI using this driver: @@ -43,6 +49,7 @@ a SMI using this driver: Host Control Action +=================== Dell OpenManage supports a host control feature that allows the administrator to perform a power cycle or power off of the system after the OS has finished @@ -69,12 +76,14 @@ power off host control action using this driver: Host Control SMI Type +===================== The following table shows the value to write to host_control_smi_type to perform a power cycle or power off host control action: +=================== ===================== PowerEdge System Host Control SMI Type ----------------- --------------------- +=================== ===================== 300 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE1 1300 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE1 1400 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 @@ -87,5 +96,4 @@ PowerEdge System Host Control SMI Type 1655MC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 700 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3 750 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3 - - +=================== ===================== |