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diff --git a/Documentation/nvme-intel-id-ctrl.1 b/Documentation/nvme-intel-id-ctrl.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c1a4d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/nvme-intel-id-ctrl.1 @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: nvme-intel-id-ctrl +.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 02/14/2024 +.\" Manual: NVMe Manual +.\" Source: NVMe +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "NVME\-INTEL\-ID\-CTR" "1" "02/14/2024" "NVMe" "NVMe Manual" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +nvme-intel-id-ctrl \- Send NVMe Identify Controller, return result and structure +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +\fInvme intel id\-ctrl\fR <device> [\-\-vendor\-specific | \-v] [\-\-raw\-binary | \-b] + [\-\-output\-format=<fmt> | \-o <fmt>] +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.sp +For the NVMe device given, sends an identify controller command and provides the result and returned structure\&. +.sp +The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1)\&. +.sp +On success, the structure may be returned in one of several ways depending on the option flags; the structure may be parsed by the program or the raw buffer may be printed to stdout\&. +.sp +If having the program decode the output for readability, this version will decode Intel vendor unique portions of the structure\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\-b, \-\-raw\-binary +.RS 4 +Print the raw buffer to stdout\&. Structure is not parsed by program\&. This overrides the vendor specific and human readable options\&. +.RE +.PP +\-v, \-\-vendor\-specific +.RS 4 +In addition to parsing known fields, this option will dump the vendor specific region of the structure in hex with ascii interpretation\&. +.RE +.PP +\-H, \-\-human\-readable +.RS 4 +This option will parse and format many of the bit fields into human\-readable formats\&. +.RE +.PP +\-o <fmt>, \-\-output\-format=<fmt> +.RS 4 +Set the reporting format to +\fInormal\fR, +\fIjson\fR, or +\fIbinary\fR\&. Only one output format can be used at a time\&. +.RE +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.sp +.RS 4 +.ie n \{\ +\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c +.\} +.el \{\ +.sp -1 +.IP \(bu 2.3 +.\} +Has the program interpret the returned buffer and display the known fields in a human readable format: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +# nvme intel id\-ctrl /dev/nvme0 +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.RE +.SH "NVME" +.sp +Part of the nvme\-user suite |