-This package contains the PCI Utilities, version 2.0.
+This package contains the PCI Utilities, version 2.1.9.
-Copyright (c) 1997--1999 Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2001 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
The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus
configuration space and several utilities based on this library. Current
-version works only on Linux, but it can be easily extended to work on other
-systems as well.
+version works only on Linux and also has an experimental support for FreeBSD,
+but it can be easily extended to work on other systems as well.
The utilities include: (See manual pages for more details)
If you have any bug reports or suggestions, send them to the author.
If you want, subscribe to linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (send
-"subscribe linux-pci Your Full Name" to listproc@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz).
+"subscribe linux-pci" to majordomo@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz).
Release notes about new versions will be send to the list and problems with
the Linux PCI support will be probably discussed there, too.
You also might want to look at the pciutils web page containing release
notes and other news: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.html .
+ If you're missing any PCI ID's, please look at the home page of the Linux
+PCI ID Repository at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ and download an updated
+pci.ids file first. If the current version doesn't contain your devices,
+please send us an update either using the Web interface of the Repository
+or just mail a unified diff against the latest pci.ids to pci-ids@ucw.cz.
+
There also exists a utility called PowerTweak which is able to fine tune
parameters of many chipsets much better than the Bridge Optimization code
-in Linux kernel (to be removed soon). See http://linux.powertweak.com/
+in Linux kernel (already removed in 2.3.x). See http://powertweak.sf.net/
for more information.
Have fun