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Perls of wisdom 15/33 • Perl’s unpack function is very useful for parsing binary data, including PCI VPD chunks. • SCSI inquiries reimplemented using Perl’s ioctl function. • Finding physical location was problematic: – Easy to determine the SCSI host adapter associated with a device.
Perls of wisdom 15/33 • Perl’s unpack function is very useful for parsing binary data, including PCI VPD chunks. • SCSI inquiries reimplemented using Perl’s ioctl function. • Finding physical location was problematic: – Easy to determine the SCSI host adapter associated with a device. – Need to parse, for example, /proc/scsi/sym53c8xx/0.
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Page 7 and 8: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
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Page 43 and 44: Missing bits • lspci: [...] 241:1
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Page 53 and 54: C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/3
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