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PCICONF(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		    PCICONF(8)

NAME
     pciconf — diagnostic utility for the PCI bus

SYNOPSIS
     pciconf -l [-bcv]
     pciconf -a selector
     pciconf -r [-b | -h] selector addr[:addr2]
     pciconf -w [-b | -h] selector addr value

DESCRIPTION
     The pciconf utility provides a command line interface to functionality
     provided by the pci(4) ioctl(2) interface.	 As such, some of the func‐
     tions are only available to users with write access to /dev/pci, normally
     only the super-user.

     With the -l option, it lists all devices found by the boot probe in the
     following format:

     foo0@pci0:0:4:0: class=0x010000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x000f1000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
     bar0@pci0:0:5:0: class=0x000100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x88c15333 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
     none0@pci0:0:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00

     The first column gives the device name, unit number, and selector.	 If
     there is no device configured in the kernel for the PCI device in ques‐
     tion, the device name will be “none”.  Unit numbers for unconfigured
     devices start at zero and are incremented for each unconfigured device
     that is encountered.  The selector is in a form which may directly be
     used for the other forms of the command.  The second column is the class
     code, with the class byte printed as two hex digits, followed by the sub-
     class and the interface bytes.  The third column gives the contents of
     the subvendorid register, introduced in revision 2.1 of the PCI standard.
     Note that it will be 0 for older cards.  The field consists of the card
     ID in the upper half and the card vendor ID in the lower half of the
     value.

     The fourth column contains the chip device ID, which identifies the chip
     this card is based on.  It consists of two fields, identifying the chip
     and its vendor, as above.	The fifth column prints the chip's revision.
     The sixth column describes the header type.  Currently assigned header
     types include 0 for most devices, 1 for PCI to PCI bridges, and 2 for PCI
     to CardBus bridges.  If the most significant bit of the header type reg‐
     ister is set for function 0 of a PCI device, it is a multi-function
     device, which contains several (similar or independent) functions on one
     chip.

     If the -b option is supplied, pciconf will list any base address regis‐
     ters (BARs) that are assigned resources for each device.  Each BAR will
     be enumerated via a line in the following format:

	 bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xda060000, size 131072, enabled

     The first value after the “bar” prefix in the square brackets is the off‐
     set of the BAR in config space in hexadecimal.  The type of a BAR is one
     of “Memory”, “Prefetchable Memory”, or “I/O Port”.	 The range indicates
     the maximum address the BAR decodes.  The base and size indicate the
     start and length of the BAR's address window, respectively.  Finally, the
     last flag indicates if the BAR is enabled or disabled.

     If the -c option is supplied, pciconf will list any capabilities sup‐
     ported by each device.  Each capability will be enumerated via a line in
     the following format:

	 cap 10[40] = PCI-Express 1 root port

     The first value after the “cap” prefix is the capability ID in hexadeci‐
     mal.  The second value in the square brackets is the offset of the capa‐
     bility in config space in hexadecimal.  The format of the text after the
     equals sign is capability-specific.

     If the -v option is supplied, pciconf will attempt to load the ven‐
     dor/device information database, and print vendor, device, class and sub‐
     class identification strings for each device.

     All invocations of pciconf except for -l require a selector of the form
     pcidomain:bus:device:function, pcibus:device:function, or pcibus:device.
     In case of an abrigded form, omitted selector components are assumed to
     be 0.  An optional leading device name followed by @ and an optional
     final colon will be ignored; this is so that the first column in the out‐
     put of pciconf -l can be used without modification.  All numbers are base
     10.

     With the -a flag, pciconf determines whether any driver has been assigned
     to the device identified by selector.  An exit status of zero indicates
     that the device has a driver; non-zero indicates that it does not.

     The -r option reads a configuration space register at byte offset addr of
     device selector and prints out its value in hexadecimal.  The optional
     second address addr2 specifies a range to read.  The -w option writes the
     value into a configuration space register at byte offset addr of device
     selector.	For both operations, the flags -b and -h select the width of
     the operation; -b indicates a byte operation, and -h indicates a halfword
     (two-byte) operation.  The default is to read or write a longword (four
     bytes).

ENVIRONMENT
     The PCI vendor/device information database is normally read from
     /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors.  This path can be overridden by setting the
     environment variable PCICONF_VENDOR_DATABASE.

SEE ALSO
     ioctl(2), devinfo(8), kldload(8)

HISTORY
     The pciconf utility appeared first in FreeBSD 2.2.	 The -a option was
     added for PCI KLD support in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS
     The pciconf utility was written by Stefan Esser and Garrett Wollman.

BUGS
     The -b and -h options are implemented in pciconf, but not in the underly‐
     ing ioctl(2).

     It might be useful to give non-root users access to the -a and -r
     options.  But only root will be able to execute a kldload to provide the
     device with a driver KLD, and reading of configuration space registers
     may cause a failure in badly designed PCI chips.

BSD			       November 7, 2007				   BSD
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