Technical Reference: Kernel and Subsystems, Volume 2

Customized VPD (CuVPD) Object Class

Description

The Customized Vital Product Data (CuVPD) object class contains the Vital Product Data (VPD) for customized devices. VPD can be either machine-readable VPD or manually entered user VPD information.

Descriptors

The Customized VPD object class contains the following descriptors:

ODM Type	Descriptor Name	Description	Descriptor Status
ODM_CHAR	name[NAMESIZE]	Device Name	Required
ODM_SHORT	vpd_type	VPD Type	Required
ODM_LONGCHAR	vpd[VPDSIZE]	VPD	Required

These fields are described as follows:

Descriptor	Description
Device Name	Identifies the device logical name to which this VPD information belongs.
VPD Type	Identifies the VPD as either machine-readable or manually-entered. The possible values: HW_VPD Identifies machine-readable VPD. USER_VPD Identifies manually entered VPD.
VPD	Identifies the VPD for the device. For machine-readable VPD, an entry in this field might include such information as serial numbers, engineering change levels, and part numbers.

Related Information

ODM Device Configuration Object Class.

The Hardware Technical Reference provides more details on the VPD.