This package contains the PCI Utilities, version @VERSION@.
-Copyright (c) 1997--2014 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2024 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?
Linux (via /sys/bus/pci, /proc/bus/pci or i386 ports)
FreeBSD (via /dev/pci)
NetBSD (via libpci)
- OpenBSD (via /dev/pci)
+ OpenBSD (via /dev/pci or i386 ports)
GNU/kFreeBSD (via /dev/pci)
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)
Darwin (via IOKit)
+ DOS/DJGPP (via i386 ports)
+ SylixOS (via /proc/pci)
+ AmigaOS on PPC (via Expansion library)
It should be very easy to add support for other systems as well (volunteers
wanted; if you want to try that, I'll be very glad to see the patches and
- update-pciids: download the current version of the pci.ids file.
+ - pcilmr: performs margining on PCIe links.
+
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The database of PCI IDs (the pci.ids file) gets out of date much faster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.
Alternatively, you can use `lspci -q' to query the central database
for new entries via network.
-The pci.ids file is also mirrored at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
+The pci.ids file is also mirrored at https://github.com/pciutils/pciids.
On Linux systems with a recent enough version of libudev, UDEV's HWDB
database is consulted when pci.ids lacks the device.
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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/
- ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/ (expect a couple of hours delay)
+ 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
5. Using the library
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).