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Snazzy SCSI solutions<br />

13/33<br />

• update-device-tree:<br />

1. Copy /proc/device-tree to /var/lib/device-tree.<br />

2. Use sg inq to do SCSI inquiries.<br />

3. Extract ‘VPD fields’ from output according to templates.<br />

4. Find device-tree node and drop in linux,vpd file.<br />

• lsvpd:<br />

1. Find all files called ibm,vpd and render them.<br />

2. Find all files called linux,vpd and cat them.<br />

• This introduced a ‘database’.

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