-This package contains the Linux PCI Utilities, version 1.10.
+This package contains the Linux PCI Utilities, version 1.99.4-alpha.
Copyright (c) 1997--1999 Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
policy as for the Linux kernel itself -- see /usr/src/linux/COPYING
for details.
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+BIG FAT WARNING: This is an ALPHA version. The documentation is out of date
+ and the same holds for spec files and even for this README.
+ And, of course, you should expect this release to contain BUGS.
+
+WHY ALPHA? I've split the real PCI access primitives from the rest
+ of the code and created libpci, which supports not only
+ /proc/bus/pci, but also direct hardware access and reading
+ of configuration space dumps and it's intended to work
+ on all Linux versions and even on non-Linux systems, making
+ creation of portable programs communicating with PCI devices
+ possible.
+
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The Linux PCI Utilities contain various utilities for dealing with the PCI
See manual pages for more details.
- You _NEED_ kernel 2.1.82 or newer which supports /proc/bus/pci.
+ You need kernel 2.1.82 or newer to use all functions of this package.
+For older kernels, only direct hardware access is supported and you must
+be root to use it.
If you have any bug reports or suggestions, send them to the author.
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TODO:
-
- - Better displaying of IRQ's generated by both PCI and CardBus bridges.
+ - lspci: "scan hard" function
+ - lib: "syscall" access method