librtas
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Librtas provides a set of libraries for user-space access to the Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS) on the ppc64 architecture.
librtas.so This library that allows user-space programs to make RTAS calls which provide support for low-level system hardware configuration and operations, such as getting hardware sensor (temp, fan speed, etc.) data, setting the operator panel LEDS, getting hardware error logs, injecting artificial hardware errors (for testing), getting VPD (Vital Product Data), and loading new firmware.
librtasevent.so This library provides a set of definitions and useful routines for analyzing RTAS events, such as parsing out the sections of an RTAS event and printing the contents of a RTAS event in human-readable form (used by many of the RAS tools on ppc64).
To compile, do the following:
make su - root make install /sbin/ldconfig
RTAS expects integer values to be in a 32 bit, big endian format. This requirement will be handled by librtas except when values are passed to or from RTAS via a buffer. In this case, we expect the caller to handle the endianess of these values. The librtas calls that employ this method are listed below:
rtas_cfg_connector rtas_errinjct rtas_get_indices rtas_get_sysparm rtas_get_vpd rtas_lpar_perftools rtas_set_sysparm rtas_update_nodes rtas_update_properties