This package contains the PCI Utilities, version @VERSION@.
-Copyright (c) 1997--2018 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2022 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
All files in this package can be freely distributed and used according
to the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2 or
-(at your opinion) any newer version. See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
+(at your opinion) any newer version. See https://www.gnu.org/ for details.
+
+The author wants to clarify that he does not consider programs which link
+dynamically to the libpci to be derived works of the library.
1. What's that?
Solaris/i386 (direct port access)
Aix (via /dev/pci and odmget)
GNU Hurd (direct port access)
- Windows (direct port access, see README.Windows for caveats)
+ Windows (via cfgmgr32 or direct port access, see README.Windows for caveats)
CYGWIN (direct port access)
BeOS (via syscalls)
Haiku (via /dev/misc/poke)
2. Compiling and (un)installing
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Just run "make" to compile the package and then "make install" to install it.
-Please note that GNU make is needed on most platforms.
+Please note that a C compiler supporting the C99 standard is required.
+Also, GNU make is needed on most platforms.
If you want to change the default installation location, please override
the PREFIX variable specified in the Makefile -- e.g., you can use
The database of PCI IDs (the pci.ids file) gets out of date much faster
than I release new versions of this package, so it is maintained separately.
-It lives at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/, where you can browse the database,
+It lives at https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/, where you can browse the database,
download the most recent pci.ids file (e.g., by running the update-ids utility)
and also submit new entries.
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The current version of pciutils is available at:
- http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/
+ https://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/
The tarball can be downloaded at the following places:
- ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/linux/pci/
+ https://mj.ucw.cz/download/linux/pci/
+ ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/mj/linux/pci/
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/ (expect a couple of hours delay)
There is also a public GIT tree at:
- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git
+ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git
https://github.com/pciutils/pciutils
If you have any bug reports or suggestions, send them to the author.
If you have any new IDs, I'll be very glad to add them to the database.
-Just submit them at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.
+Just submit them at https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.
Announcements of new versions are sent to linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
(see http://vger.kernel.org/ for instructions).