smp_utils is a package of command line utilities for invoking SMP functions to monitor and manage SAS expanders. SMP is the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Serial Management Protocol. A SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA) includes a SMP initiator (along with SSP and STP initiators). A SAS expander contains a SMP target. Many SAS HBAs have a SMP pass through interface that can be used to send SMP requests and receive the responses. This package is designed to work with the linux kernel (lk) 2.6 series, FreeBSD 9.0 and recent Solaris versions. Two interfaces are available for Linux: "sgv4" and "mptctl". The "sgv4" interface uses the bsg driver. This version adds the smp_conf_phy_event utility. Now all SMP functions defined in SPL and SPL-2 (up to revision 3) are supported. The build is now autotools-based (i.e. './configure ; make ; make install') and ports to FreeBSD and Solaris have been added. There is now a 'smputils' library which may be of interest to Linux udev maintainers since udisks-probe-sas-expander is "a bit cheesy" to quote its C source. For an overview, examples and downloads of smp_utils see: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/smp_utils.html Changelog for smp_utils-0.97 [20120120] [svn:r116] - smp_conf_phy_event: new utility - change to ./configure style build and use smputils runtime and development libraries - change binary install from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin in debian and rpm (.spec) scripts - sync to SPL-2 (spl2r03) - take resid into account when calculating the actual response length - smp_rep_phy_event, smp_rep_phy_event_list: add --enumerate option to list Phy Event Source names - smp_read_gpio, smp_write_gpio: move register type, index and count fields in enhanced variants - add solaris and freebsd ports Changelog for smp_utils-0.96 [20110620] [svn:r96] ... SAS-2 expanders often include a SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) device. To support this there has been a major rework of the sg_ses utility (again) in the sg3_utils version 1.33 package. See http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html and http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html Doug Gilbert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
