Documentation/userspace-api/dcdbas.rst

2 Dell Systems Management Base Driver
8 The Dell Systems Management Base Driver provides a sysfs interface for
9 systems management software such as Dell OpenManage to perform system
10 management interrupts and host control actions (system power cycle or
11 power off after OS shutdown) on certain Dell systems.
24 System Management Interrupt
27 On some Dell systems, systems management software must access certain
28 management information via a system management interrupt (SMI).  The SMI data
29 buffer must reside in 32-bit address space, and the physical address of the
32 The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management
33 software to perform these system management interrupts::
40 Systems management software must perform the following steps to execute
44 2) Write system management command to smi_data.
47 4) Read system management command response from smi_data.
55 to perform a power cycle or power off of the system after the OS has finished
59 The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management software
60 to schedule the driver to perform a power cycle or power off host control
67 Dell OpenManage performs the following steps to execute a power cycle or
68 power off host control action using this driver:
82 perform a power cycle or power off host control action: