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1What:		/sys/firmware/opal/dump
2Date:		Feb 2014
3Contact:	Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
4Description:
5		This directory exposes interfaces for interacting with
6		the FSP and platform dumps through OPAL firmware interface.
7
8		This is only for the powerpc/powernv platform.
9
10		=============== ===============================================
11		initiate_dump:	When '1' is written to it,
12				we will initiate a dump.
13				Read this file for supported commands.
14
15		0xXX-0xYYYY:	A directory for dump of type 0xXX and
16				id 0xYYYY (in hex). The name of this
17				directory should not be relied upon to
18				be in this format, only that it's unique
19				among all dumps. For determining the type
20				and ID of the dump, use the id and type files.
21				Do not rely on any particular size of dump
22				type or dump id.
23		=============== ===============================================
24
25		Each dump has the following files:
26
27		=============== ===============================================
28		id:		An ASCII representation of the dump ID
29				in hex (e.g. '0x01')
30		type:		An ASCII representation of the type of
31				dump in the format "0x%x %s" with the ID
32				in hex and a description of the dump type
33				(or 'unknown').
34				Type '0xffffffff unknown' is used when
35				we could not get the type from firmware.
36				e.g. '0x02 System/Platform Dump'
37		dump:		A binary file containing the dump.
38				The size of the dump is the size of this file.
39		acknowledge:	When 'ack' is written to this, we will
40				acknowledge that we've retrieved the
41				dump to the service processor. It will
42				then remove it, making the dump
43				inaccessible.
44				Reading this file will get a list of
45				supported actions.
46		=============== ===============================================
47