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f2bf13dc 1.TH pcilib 7 "@TODAY@" "@VERSION@" "The PCI Utilities"
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2.SH NAME
3pcilib \- a library for accessing PCI devices
4
5.SH DESCRIPTION
6
7The PCI library (also known as \fIpcilib\fP and \fIlibpci\fP) is a portable library
8for accessing PCI devices and their configuration space.
9
10.SH ACCESS METHODS
11
12.PP
13The library supports a variety of methods to access the configuration space
14on different operating systems. By default, the first matching method in this
15list is used, but you can specify override the decision (see the \fB-A\fP switch
16of \fIlspci\fP).
17
18.TP
19.B linux-sysfs
20The
21.B /sys
22filesystem on Linux 2.6 and newer. The standard header of the config space is available
9bd5b1cf 23to all users, the rest only to root. Supports extended configuration space, PCI domains,
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24VPD (from Linux 2.6.26), physical slots (also since Linux 2.6.26) and information on attached
25kernel drivers.
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26.TP
27.B linux-proc
28The
29.B /proc/bus/pci
30interface supported by Linux 2.1 and newer. The standard header of the config space is available
31to all users, the rest only to root.
32.TP
33.B intel-conf1
34Direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1. Available on i386 and compatibles
40e253d7 35on Linux, Solaris/x86, GNU Hurd, Windows, BeOS and Haiku. Requires root privileges.
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36.TP
37.B intel-conf2
38Direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 2. Available on i386 and compatibles
40e253d7 39on Linux, Solaris/x86, GNU Hurd, Windows, BeOS and Haiku. Requires root privileges. Warning: This method
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40is able to address only the first 16 devices on any bus and it seems to be very
41unreliable in many cases.
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43.B mmio-conf1
44Direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1 via memory-mapped I/O.
45Mostly used on non-i386 platforms. Requires root privileges. Warning: This method
46needs to be properly configured via the
47.B mmio-conf1.addrs
48parameter.
49.TP
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50.B mmio-conf1-ext
51Direct hardware access via Extended PCIe Intel configuration mechanism 1 via memory-mapped I/O.
52Mostly used on non-i386 platforms. Requires root privileges. Warning: This method
53needs to be properly configured via the
54.B mmio-conf1-ext.addrs
55parameter.
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57.B ecam
58Direct hardware access via PCIe ECAM (Enhanced Configuration Access Mechanism).
59Available on all PCIe-compliant hardware. Requires root privileges and access
60to physical memory (on Linux systems disabled CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM option). On
61ACPI compatible systems is ECAM mapping read from the MCFG table specified by the
62.B ecam.acpimcfg
63parameter. On EFI compatible systems, ACPI MCFG table can be located in physical
64memory via EFI system table specified by the
65.B ecam.efisystab
66parameter. On FreeBSD/NetBSD systems, physical address of ACPI MCFG table can be
67located by kenv or sysctl interface when the
68.B ecam.bsd
69parameter is not disabled. On x86 BIOS compatible systems, ACPI MCFG table can
70be located in physical memory by scanning x86 BIOS memory when the
71.B ecam.x86bios
72parameter is not disabled. Alternatively ECAM mappings can be specified by the
73.B ecam.addrs
74parameter which takes precedence over ACPI MCFG table. This option is required
75on systems without ACPI and also on systems without EFI or x86 BIOS.
76.TP
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77.B fbsd-device
78The
79.B /dev/pci
80device on FreeBSD. Requires root privileges.
81.TP
82.B aix-device
83Access method used on AIX. Requires root privileges.
84.TP
85.B nbsd-libpci
86The
87.B /dev/pci0
88device on NetBSD accessed using the local libpci library.
89.TP
90.B obsd-device
91The
92.B /dev/pci
93device on OpenBSD. Requires root privileges.
94.TP
95.B dump
96Read the contents of configuration registers from a file specified in the
97.B dump.name
98parameter. The format corresponds to the output of \fIlspci\fP \fB-x\fP.
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99.TP
100.B darwin
101Access method used on Mac OS X / Darwin. Must be run as root and the system
102must have been booted with debug=0x144.
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103.TP
104.B win32-cfgmgr32
105Device listing on Windows systems using the Windows Configuration Manager
106via cfgmgr32.dll system library. This method does not require any special
107Administrator rights or privileges. Configuration Manager provides only basic
108information about devices, assigned resources and device tree structure. There
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109is no access to the PCI configuration space but libpci either tries to use
110other access method to access configuration space or it provides read-only
111virtual emulation based on information from Configuration Manager. Other
112access method can be chosen by the
113.B win32.cfgmethod
114parameter. By default the first working one is selected (if any). Starting
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115with Windows 8 (NT 6.2) it is not possible to retrieve resources from 32-bit
116application or library on 64-bit system.
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117.TP
118.B win32-sysdbg
119Access to the PCI configuration space via NT SysDbg interface on Windows
120systems. Process needs to have Debug privilege, which local Administrators
121have by default. Not available on 64-bit systems and neither on recent 32-bit
122systems. Only devices from the first domain are accessible and only first
123256 bytes of the PCI configuration space is accessible via this method.
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125.B win32-kldbg
126Access to the PCI configuration space via Kernel Local Debugging Driver
127kldbgdrv.sys. This driver is not part of the Windows system but is part of
128the Microsoft WinDbg tool. It is required to have kldbgdrv.sys driver installed
129in the system32 directory or to have windbg.exe or kd.exe binary in PATH.
130kldbgdrv.sys driver has some restrictions. Process needs to have Debug privilege
131and Windows system has to be booted with Debugging option. Debugging option can
132be enabled by calling (takes effect after next boot):
133.B bcdedit /debug on
134.IP
135Download links for WinDbg 6.12.2.633 standalone installer from Microsoft Windows
136SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4:
137.br
138amd64: https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/A/A6AC035D-DA3F-4F0C-ADA4-37C8E5D34E3D/setup/WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64/dbg_amd64.msi
139.br
140ia64: https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/A/A6AC035D-DA3F-4F0C-ADA4-37C8E5D34E3D/setup/WinSDKDebuggingTools_ia64/dbg_ia64.msi
141.br
142x86: https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/A/A6AC035D-DA3F-4F0C-ADA4-37C8E5D34E3D/setup/WinSDKDebuggingTools/dbg_x86.msi
143.IP
144Archived download links of previous WinDbg versions:
145.br
146https://web.archive.org/web/20110221133326/https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx
147.br
148https://web.archive.org/web/20110214012715/https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/install64bit.mspx
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149
150.SH PARAMETERS
151
152.PP
153The library is controlled by several parameters. They should have sensible default
154values, but in case you want to do something unusual (or even something weird),
155you can override them (see the \fB-O\fP switch of \fIlspci\fP).
156
157.SS Parameters of specific access methods
158
159.TP
160.B dump.name
161Name of the bus dump file to read from.
162.TP
163.B fbsd.path
164Path to the FreeBSD PCI device.
165.TP
166.B nbsd.path
167Path to the NetBSD PCI device.
168.TP
169.B obsd.path
170Path to the OpenBSD PCI device.
171.TP
172.B proc.path
173Path to the procfs bus tree.
174.TP
175.B sysfs.path
176Path to the sysfs device tree.
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178.B devmem.path
179Path to the /dev/mem device.
180.TP
181.B mmio-conf1.addrs
182Physical addresses of memory-mapped I/O ports for Intel configuration mechanism 1.
183CF8 (address) and CFC (data) I/O port addresses are separated by slash and
184multiple addresses for different PCI domains are separated by commas.
185Format: 0xaddr1/0xdata1,0xaddr2/0xdata2,...
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187.B mmio-conf1-ext.addrs
188Physical addresses of memory-mapped I/O ports for Extended PCIe Intel configuration mechanism 1.
189It has same format as
190.B mmio-conf1.addrs
191parameter.
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193.B ecam.addrs
194Physical addresses of PCIe ECAM mappings. Each mapping must contains first PCI
195bus number and physical address where mapping starts. And then it may contain
196the length of the mapping, the last PCI bus number and PCI domain number. When
197the last PCI bus number is not provided then it is calculated from the length
198of the mapping or it is assumed 0xff. When length of the mapping is provided
199then it is calculated from the last PCI bus number. And when PCI domain is not
200provided then 0x0 is assumed. All numbers must be supplied in hexadecimal form
201(leading prefix 0x is not required). Multiple mappings are separated by commas.
202Format: [domain:]start_bus[-end_bus]:start_addr[+length],...
203.TP
204.B ecam.acpimcfg
205Path to the ACPI MCFG table. Processed by the
206.BR glob (3)
207function, so it may contain wildcards (*).
208.TP
209.B ecam.efisystab
210Path to the EFI system table.
211.TP
212.B ecam.bsd
213When not set to 0 then use BSD kenv or sysctl to find ACPI MCFG table. Default
214value is 1 on BSD systems.
215.TP
216.B ecam.x86bios
217When not set to 0 then scan x86 BIOS memory for ACPI MCFG table. Default value
218is 1 on x86 systems.
219.TP
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96240635 221Config space access method to use with win32-cfgmgr32 on Windows systems. Value
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223or an empty string selects the first access method which supports access
224to the config space on Windows. Value
848123eb 225.I win32-cfgmgr32
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226or
227.I none
96240635 228only builds a read-only virtual emulated config space with information from the
848123eb 229Configuration Manager.
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230
231.SS Parameters for resolving of ID's via DNS
232.TP
233.B net.domain
234DNS domain containing the ID database.
235.TP
236.B net.cache_name
237Name of the file used for caching of resolved ID's.
238
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239.SS Parameters for resolving of ID's via UDEV's HWDB
240.TP
241.B hwdb.disable
242Disable use of HWDB if set to a non-zero value.
243
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244.SH SEE ALSO
245
246.BR lspci (8),
247.BR setpci (8),
ef5b622f 248.BR pci.ids (5),
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249.BR update-pciids (8)
250
251.SH AUTHOR
252The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>.