On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:10:02 +1000 (EST)
Andre van Eyssen <andre at purplecow.org> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I was thinking today, after another request to translate ports on the back 
> of a host into physical slots, that it would be very cool for the userbase 
> to be able to run a command like
> 
> # dladm show-slot
> qfe0          PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 0,1"
> qfe1          PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 1,1"
> qfe2          PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 2,1"
> qfe3          PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 3,1"
> ge0           ONBOARD         "/pci at 8,600000/network at 1"
> (etc)
> 
> This should certainly be do-able for any Sun manufactured machines, and 
> would be a nice touch.
> 
> The main idea here is that way a single, simple command will yield 
> understandable-to-most results without the need to understand too much. 
> HP-UX has "lanscan" and "ioscan" to provide some degree of similar 
> information.
> 
> Extra points for something that covers host bus adapters as well.
> 
> Comments, team?



6844918 dladm show-slot could do logical to physical mapping

jbk: I included a suggestion about libtopo usage :-)



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