opensolaris man page for npe

npe(7D) 							      Devices								   npe(7D)

NAME
       npe - PCI Express bus nexus driver

DESCRIPTION
       The npe nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express Root Complex devices that provide PCI Express interconnect. This driver is com-
       pliant to PCI Express base specification, Revision 1.0a.

       This nexus driver provides support for the following features: Access to  extended  configuration  space,  IEEE	1275  extensions  for  PCI
       Express, Base line PCI Express error handling and PCI Express MSI interrupts.

FILES
       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/npe

	   32-bit ELF kernel module.

       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/npe

	   64-bit ELF kernel module.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x64 PCI Express-based systems |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcakr.i		    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       attributes(5), pcie(4), pcie_pci(7D)

       PCI Express Base Specification v1.0a -- 2003

       Writing Device Drivers

       IEEE 1275 PCI Bus Binding -- 1998

       http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/pci/pci-express.txt

SunOS 5.11							    12 Oct 2005 							   npe(7D)