On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:02:48 -0500 "Jason J. Herne" <jjhe...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 1/10/19 7:15 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:01:19 -0500 > > "Jason J. Herne" <jjhe...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> On 1/9/19 1:34 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > >>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:10:26 -0500 > >>> "Jason J. Herne" <jjhe...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >>>> I'm not sure what value there is in abstracting sense at the moment. I'm > >>>> not even sure > >>>> what other device's sense data looks like. Since my description of the > >>>> SENSE CCW comes > >>>> from an ECKD reference I have not been able to verify any areas of the > >>>> data that are > >>>> common across device types. Thoughts? > >>> > >>> There's SA22-7204-01 ("Common I/O Device Commands"), which is from 1992 > >>> (this is what I have on my disk -- is there anything newer?). It > >>> specifies what bits 0-5 of byte 0 mean and states that bytes 1-31 are > >>> optional and device-specific. > >>> > >>> Maybe some other bits have been specified after 1992, but I have not > >>> come across documentation for them. > >> > >> That publication is no longer available. According to my quick research it > >> has been > >> replaced by an internal only publication. I'll see what I can find. > > > > The publication no longer being available is not good, as it is a > > normative reference pointed to by the virtio standard (see > > http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/cs04/virtio-v1.0-cs04.html#x1-30001) > > :( > > > > Is there any chance that at least that old version can be made > > available again? > > A quick web search turns up the following link: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/support/libraryserver/FRAMESET/DZ9AR501/CCONTENTS?D > > So I guess it is available, even if the document has been superseded > internally. Cool, thanks for checking!