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)