This is a package of utilities. Each utility sends a Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) Serial Management Protocol (SMP) request to an SMP target.
If the request fails then the error is decoded. If the request succeeds
then the response is either decoded, printed out in hexadecimal or
output in binary. This package was written using the linux 2.6 series
and has been ported to FreeBSD and Solaris.

For specific information about Linux see README.linux; for FreeBSD see
README.freebsd and for Solaris see README.solaris .

See COVERAGE file for more information about the coverage of various
SMP functions.

Each utility in the smp_utils package has a corresponding man page.
Additionally there is a 'smp_utils' man page that contains common
information, including options used by most or all utilities plus
the various exit status values.

There are examples of setting up and disabling zoning in the examples
directory.


The reference documents are:
  sas-r05.pdf          www.t10.org   draft prior to original SAS spec
  sas1r10.pdf          www.t10.org   draft prior to SAS 1.1 spec
  sas2r16.pdf          www.t10.org   draft prior to SAS-2
  spl-r07.pdf          www.t10.org   draft prior to SAS-2.1
  spl2r03.pdf          www.t10.org   current draft
  SFF_8485.PDF         www.sffcommittee.com   SGPIO revision 0.7

In SAS-2.1 the physical layer was put into a document of that name
(i.e. SAS-2.1) while the higher layers were put in a new document called
the SAS Protocol Layer (SPL).


Doug Gilbert
20th January 2012
