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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2021-08-12 12:01:05 +0000
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+'\" t
+.\" Title: nvme-primary-ctrl-caps
+.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 05/11/2021
+.\" Manual: NVMe Manual
+.\" Source: NVMe
+.\" Language: English
+.\"
+.TH "NVME\-PRIMARY\-CTRL\" "1" "05/11/2021" "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-primary-ctrl-caps \- Send identify Primary Controller Caps, return result and structure
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.sp
+.nf
+\fInvme primary\-ctrl\-caps\fR <device> [\-o <format> | \-\-output\-format=<format>]
+.fi
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.sp
+For the NVMe device given, sends an identify primary Controller caps 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\&.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.PP
+\-o <format>, \-\-output\-format=<format>
+.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
+.PP
+\-H, \-\-human\-readable
+.RS 4
+This option will parse and format many of the bit fields into human\-readable formats\&.
+.RE
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.sp
+.RS 4
+.ie n \{\
+\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.sp -1
+.IP \(bu 2.3
+.\}
+Get Primary Ctrl Caps of the device in default format
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+# nvme primary\-ctrl\-caps /dev/nvme0
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.RE
+.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 primary\-ctrl\-caps /dev/nvme0 \-\-human\-readbale
+# nvme primary\-ctrl\-caps /dev/nvme0 \-H
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.RE
+.SH "NVME"
+.sp
+Part of the nvme\-user suite