This package contains the PCI Utilities, version @VERSION@.
-Copyright (c) 1997--2012 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2017 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
Solaris/i386 (direct port access)
Aix (via /dev/pci and odmget)
GNU Hurd (direct port access)
- Windows (direct port access)
+ Windows (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)
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
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.
4. Getting new versions
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)
- ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/hardware/ (expect a couple of days delay)
+ 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://github.com/pciutils/pciutils
5. Using the library