-This package contains the PCI Utilities, version 2.1.9.
+This package contains the PCI Utilities, version @VERSION@.
-Copyright (c) 1997--2002 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2008 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. This is the same distribution
-policy as for the Linux kernel itself -- see /usr/src/linux/COPYING
-for details.
+(at your opinion) any newer version. See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
1. What's that?
The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus
configuration registers and several utilities based on this library.
-Currently, pciutils work on all versions of Linux and they also have somewhat
-experimental support for FreeBSD and AIX. It should be very easy to add support
-for other systems as well (volunteers wanted; if you want to try that, please
-send the patches to me, so that I can include them in the next version).
+In runs on the following systems:
+
+ Linux (via /sys/bus/pci, /proc/bus/pci or i386 ports)
+ FreeBSD (via /dev/pci)
+ NetBSD (via libpci)
+ OpenBSD (via /dev/pci)
+ 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)
+
+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
+include them in the next version).
The utilities include: (See manual pages for more details)
- - lspci: displays detailed information about all PCI busses and devices.
+ - lspci: displays detailed information about all PCI buses and devices.
- setpci: allows to read from and write to PCI device configuration
registers. For example, you can adjust the latency timers with it.
CAUTION: There is a couple of dangerous points and caveats, please read
the manual page first!
+ - update-pciids: download the current version of the pci.ids file.
+
2. Compiling and (un)installing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Just run "make" to compile the package and then "make install" to install it.
If you want to change the default installation location, please override
-the ROOT and PREFIX variables specified in the Makefile -- e.g., you can
-use "make PREFIX=/opt/pciutils ROOT=/opt/pciutils install" to create
-a separate installation not interfering with the rest of your system.
+the PREFIX variable specified in the Makefile -- e.g., you can use
+"make PREFIX=/opt/pciutils install" to create a separate installation
+not interfering with the rest of your system. Setting the DESTDIR variable
+will allow you to install to a different directory from the one you intend
+to eventually run it from. This is useful for people who are packaging
+pciutils to install on other computers.
+
+The configure script will automatically enable support for a compressed
+pci.ids if you have zlib installed. You can override its guess by using
+"make ZLIB=no" or "make ZLIB=yes". If compressed support is enabled,
+pciutils will use pci.ids.gz in preference to pci.ids, even if the
+pci.ids file is newer. If the pci.ids.gz file is missing, it will use
+pci.ids instead.
When you are bored of dumping PCI registers, just use "make uninstall".
If you are missing names for any of your devices or you just want to stay
on the bleeding edge, download the most recent pci.ids file from
-http://pciids.sf.net/. You can try "make update-ids" to accomplish that
-automatically (requires wget and bzip2).
+http://pciids.sf.net/ (e.g., by running the update-ids utility).
+
+Alternatively, you can use `lspci -q' to query the central database
+for new entries via network.
If your devices still appear as unknown, please send us their ID's and
names, the detailed instructions for submissions are listed on the
sf.net web page.
-4. Available access methods
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The library (and therefore all the utilities) know a variety of methods for
-accessing the PCI registers. Here is a list of them:
+4. Getting new versions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+New versions of pciutils are available 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)
+
+There is also a public GIT tree at:
- /proc/bus/pci on all Linux systems since kernel 2.1.82.
- direct port access on all Linux systems with i386, to be used when
- /proc/bus/pci is unavailable or you want to scan
- the bus manually when hunting kernel bugs.
- dumps reading of dumps produced by `lspci -x'.
- lsdev + odmget used on AIX
- /dev/pci used on FreeBSD
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git
5. Using the library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-There is still no documentation for the library, if you want to use it
-in your programs, please follow the comments in lib/pci.h and in the
-example program lib/example.c.
+So far, there is only a little documentation for the library except for the
+general introduction in the pcilib(7) man page. If you want to use the
+library in your programs, please follow the comments in lib/pci.h and in
+the example program lib/example.c.
6. Feedback
7. Miscellanea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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 .
+notes and other news: http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.shtml .
There also exists a utility called PowerTweak which is able to fine tune
parameters of many chipsets much better than the Bridge Optimization code
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