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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dcdbas.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dcdbas.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 309cc57a7c..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dcdbas.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -=================================== -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 -management interrupts and host control actions (system power cycle or -power off after OS shutdown) on certain Dell systems. - -Dell OpenManage requires this driver on the following Dell PowerEdge systems: -300, 1300, 1400, 400SC, 500SC, 1500SC, 1550, 600SC, 1600SC, 650, 1655MC, -700, and 750. Other Dell software such as the open source libsmbios project -is expected to make use of this driver, and it may include the use of this -driver on other Dell systems. - -The Dell libsmbios project aims towards providing access to as much BIOS -information as possible. See http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ for -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 -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:: - - /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: - -1) Lock smi_data. -2) Write system management command to smi_data. -3) Write "1" to smi_request to generate a calling interface SMI or - "2" to generate a raw SMI. -4) Read system management command response from smi_data. -5) Unlock smi_data. - - -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 -shutting down. On some Dell systems, this host control feature requires that -a driver perform a SMI after the OS has finished shutting down. - -The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management software -to schedule the driver to perform a power cycle or power off host control -action after the system has finished shutting down: - -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_action -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_smi_type -/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_on_shutdown - -Dell OpenManage performs the following steps to execute a power cycle or -power off host control action using this driver: - -1) Write host control action to be performed to host_control_action. -2) Write type of SMI that driver needs to perform to host_control_smi_type. -3) Write "1" to host_control_on_shutdown to enable host control action. -4) Initiate OS shutdown. - (Driver will perform host control SMI when it is notified that the OS - has finished shutting down.) - - -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 - 500SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 1500SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 1550 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 600SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 1600SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 650 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 1655MC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2 - 700 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3 - 750 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3 -=================== ===================== |