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NPE(7D)								       NPE(7D)

NAME
       npe - PCI Express bus nexus driver

DESCRIPTION
       The  npe	 nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express Root Com‐
       plex 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 │
       └───────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

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

				 Oct 12, 2005			       NPE(7D)
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