pcilib(7)                                                        The PCI Utilities                                                       pcilib(7)

NAME

       pcilib - a library for accessing PCI devices

DESCRIPTION

       The PCI library (also known as pcilib and libpci) is a portable library for accessing PCI devices and their configuration space.

ACCESS METHODS

       The  library supports a variety of methods to access the configuration space on different operating systems. By default, the first matching
       method in this list is used, but you can specify override the decision (see the -A switch of lspci).

       linux-sysfs
              The /sys filesystem on Linux 2.6 and newer. The standard header of the config space is available to all  users,  the  rest  only  to
              root.  Supports  extended  configuration  space,  PCI domains, VPD (from Linux 2.6.26), physical slots (also since Linux 2.6.26) and
              information on attached kernel drivers.

       linux-proc
              The /proc/bus/pci interface supported by Linux 2.1 and newer. The standard header of the config space is available to all users, the
              rest only to root.

       intel-conf1
              Direct  hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1. Available on i386 and compatibles on Linux, Solaris/x86, GNU Hurd, Win-
              dows, BeOS and Haiku. Requires root privileges.

       intel-conf2
              Direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 2. Available on i386 and compatibles on Linux, Solaris/x86, GNU Hurd,  Win-
              dows,  BeOS and Haiku. Requires root privileges. Warning: This method is able to address only the first 16 devices on any bus and it
              seems to be very unreliable in many cases.

       fbsd-device
              The /dev/pci device on FreeBSD. Requires root privileges.

       aix-device
              Access method used on AIX. Requires root privileges.

       nbsd-libpci
              The /dev/pci0 device on NetBSD accessed using the local libpci library.

       obsd-device
              The /dev/pci device on OpenBSD. Requires root privileges.

       dump   Read the contents of configuration registers from a file specified in the dump.name parameter. The format corresponds to the  output
              of lspci -x.

       darwin Access method used on Mac OS X / Darwin. Must be run as root and the system must have been booted with debug=0x144.

PARAMETERS

       The library is controlled by several parameters. They should have sensible default values, but in case you want to do something unusual (or
       even something weird), you can override them (see the -O switch of lspci).

   Parameters of specific access methods
       dump.name
              Name of the bus dump file to read from.

       fbsd.path
              Path to the FreeBSD PCI device.

       nbsd.path
              Path to the NetBSD PCI device.

       obsd.path
              Path to the OpenBSD PCI device.

       proc.path
              Path to the procfs bus tree.

       sysfs.path
              Path to the sysfs device tree.

   Parameters for resolving of ID's via DNS
       net.domain
              DNS domain containing the ID database.

       net.cache_name
              Name of the file used for caching of resolved ID's.

   Parameters for resolving of ID's via UDEV's HWDB
       hwdb.disable
              Disable use of HWDB if set to a non-zero value.

SEE ALSO

       lspci(8), setpci(8), update-pciids(8)

AUTHOR

       The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>.

pciutils-3.5.2                                                    03 October 2016                                                        pcilib(7)