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lspci(8)		       The PCI Utilities		      lspci(8)



NAME
       lspci - list all PCI devices

SYNOPSIS
       lspci [options]

DESCRIPTION
       lspci  is  a  utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in
       the system and all devices connected to them.

       By default, it shows a brief list of devices. Use the options described
       below  to  request  either a more verbose output or output intended for
       parsing by other programs.

       If you are going to report bugs in  PCI	device	drivers  or  in  lspci
       itself,	please	include  output  of "lspci -vvx" or even better "lspci
       -vvxxx" (however, see below for possible caveats).

       Some parts of the output, especially in the highly  verbose  modes,  is
       probably  intelligible  only  to experienced PCI hackers. For the exact
       definitions of the fields, please consult either the PCI specifications
       or the header.h and /usr/include/linux/pci.h include files.

       Access  to  some  parts of the PCI configuration space is restricted to
       root on many operating systems, so the features of lspci  available  to
       normal  users  are limited. However, lspci tries its best to display as
       much as available and mark all other information with  <access  denied>
       text.


OPTIONS
       -v     Be verbose and display detailed information about all devices.

       -vv    Be  very	verbose  and display more details. This level includes
	      everything deemed useful.

       -vvv   Be even more verbose and	display  everything  we  are  able  to
	      parse,  even  if it doesn't look interesting at all (e.g., unde-
	      fined memory regions).

       -n     Show PCI vendor and device codes as numbers instead  of  looking
	      them up in the PCI ID list.

       -nn    Show PCI vendor and device codes as both numbers and names.

       -x     Show  hexadecimal dump of the standard part of the configuration
	      space (the first 64 bytes or 128 bytes for CardBus bridges).

       -xxx   Show hexadecimal dump of the whole PCI configuration  space.  It
	      is  available only to root as several PCI devices crash when you
	      try to read some parts of the config space (this behavior proba-
	      bly  doesn't  violate  the  PCI standard, but it's at least very
	      stupid). However, such devices are rare, so  you	needn't  worry
	      much.

       -xxxx  Show hexadecimal dump of the extended (4096-byte) PCI configura-
	      tion space available on PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express buses.

       -b     Bus-centric view. Show all IRQ numbers and addresses as seen  by
	      the cards on the PCI bus instead of as seen by the kernel.

       -t     Show  a tree-like diagram containing all buses, bridges, devices
	      and connections between them.

       -s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]]
	      Show only devices in the specified domain (in case your  machine
	      has  several  host  bridges,  they can either share a common bus
	      number space or each of them can address a  PCI  domain  of  its
	      own;  domains  are numbered from 0 to ffff), bus (0 to ff), slot
	      (0 to 1f) and function (0 to 7).	Each component of  the	device
	      address  can be omitted or set to "*", both meaning "any value".
	      All numbers are hexadecimal.  E.g., "0:" means  all  devices  on
	      bus  0,  "0"  means  all functions of device 0 on any bus, "0.3"
	      selects third function of device 0 on all buses and  ".4"  shows
	      only the fourth function of each device.

       -d [<vendor>]:[<device>]
	      Show only devices with specified vendor and device ID. Both ID's
	      are given in hexadecimal and may be omitted  or  given  as  "*",
	      both meaning "any value".

       -i <file>
	      Use    <file>    as    the    PCI    ID	 list	 instead    of
	      /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.

       -m     Dump PCI device data in a backward-compatible  machine  readable
	      form.  See below for details.

       -mm    Dump PCI device data in a machine readable form for easy parsing
	      by scripts.  See below for details.

       -D     Always show PCI domain numbers.  By  default,  lspci  suppresses
	      them on machines which have only domain 0.

       -M     Invoke  bus  mapping  mode which performs a thorough scan of all
	      PCI devices, including those behind misconfigured  bridges  etc.
	      This  option  is	available only to root and it gives meaningful
	      results only if combined with direct hardware access mode  (oth-
	      erwise the results are identical to normal listing modes, modulo
	      bugs in lspci). Please note that the bus mapper doesn't  support
	      PCI domains and scans only domain 0.

       --version
	      Shows lspci version. This option should be used stand-alone.


PCILIB AND ITS OPTIONS
       The  PCI  utilities  use PCILIB (a portable library providing platform-
       independent functions for PCI configuration space access)  to  talk  to
       the PCI cards. It supports the following access methods:


       linux_sysfs
	      The  /sys filesystem on Linux 2.6 and newer. The standard header
	      of the config space is available to all users, the rest only  to
	      root. Supports extended configuration space and PCI domains.

       linux_proc
	      The  /proc/bus/pci  interface  supported by Linux 2.1 and newer.
	      The standard header of the config  space	is  available  to  all
	      users, the rest only to root.

       intel_conf1
	      Direct  hardware	access	via  Intel  configuration mechanism 1.
	      Available on i386 and compatibles  on  Linux,  Solaris/x86,  GNU
	      Hurd and Windows. Requires root privileges.

       intel_conf2
	      Direct  hardware	access	via  Intel  configuration mechanism 2.
	      Available on i386 and compatibles on Linux, Solaris/x86 and  GNU
	      Hurd.  Requires root privileges. Warning: This method is able to
	      address only first 16 devices on any bus and it seems to be very
	      unreliable in many cases.

       fbsd_device
	      The /dev/pci device on FreeBSD. Requires root privileges.

       aix_device
	      Access method used on AIX. Requires root privileges.

       nbsd_libpci
	      The  /dev/pci0  device on NetBSD accessed using the local libpci
	      library.


       By default, PCILIB uses the first available access method and  displays
       no  debugging  messages, but you can use the following switches to con-
       trol its behavior:


       -P <dir>
	      Force use of the linux_proc access method, using	<dir>  instead
	      of /proc/bus/pci.

       -H1    Use  direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1.

       -H2    Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism  2.

       -F <file>
	      Extract  all  information  from  given file containing output of
	      lspci -x. This is very useful for analysis of user-supplied  bug
	      reports,	because  you can display the hardware configuration in
	      any way you want without disturbing the user with  requests  for
	      more dumps.

       -G     Increase debug level of the library.


MACHINE READABLE OUTPUT
       If  you intend to process the output of lspci automatically, please use
       one of the machine-readable output formats (-m, -vm, -vmm) described in
       this  section.  All other formats are likely to change between versions
       of lspci.


       All numbers are always printed in hexadecimal. If you want  to  process
       numeric ID's instead of names, please add the -n switch.


   Simple format (-m)
       In  the simple format, each device is described on a single line, which
       is formatted as parameters suitable for	passing  to  a	shell  script,
       i.e., values separated by whitespaces, quoted and escaped if necessary.
       Some of the arguments are positional: slot, class, vendor name,	device
       name,  subsystem vendor name and subsystem name (the last two are empty
       if the device has no subsystem); the remaining  arguments  are  option-
       like:


       -rrev  Revision number.


       -pprogif
	      Programming interface.


       The  relative  order  of positional arguments and options is undefined.
       New options can be added in future versions, but they will always  have
       a  single argument not separated from the option by any spaces, so they
       can be easily ignored if not recognized.


   Verbose format (-vmm)
       The verbose output is a sequence of records separated by  blank	lines.
       Each record describes a single device by a sequence of lines, each line
       containing a single `tag: value' pair. The tag and the value are  sepa-
       rated  by  a  single  tab character.  Neither the records nor the lines
       within a record are in any particular order.  Tags are  case-sensitive.


       The following tags are defined:


       Slot   The    name    of    the	 slot	where	the   device   resides
	      ([domain:]bus:device.function).  This tag is always the first in
	      a record.


       Class  Name of the class.


       Vendor Name of the vendor.


       Device Name of the device.


       SVendor
	      Name of the subsystem vendor (optional).


       SDevice
	      Name of the subsystem (optional).


       Rev    Revision number (optional).


       ProgIf Programming interface (optional).


       New tags can be added in future versions, so you should silently ignore
       any tags you don't recognize.


   Backward-compatible verbose format (-vm)
       In this mode, lspci tries to be perfectly compatible with its old  ver-
       sions.	It's  almost  the  same as the regular verbose format, but the
       Device tag is used for both the slot and the device name, so it	occurs
       twice  in  a  single  record. Please avoid using this format in any new
       code.


FILES
       /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
	      A list of all known PCI ID's (vendors, devices, classes and sub-
	      classes).  Maintained at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/, use the
	      update-pciids utility to download the most recent version.

       /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
	      If lspci is compiled with support for compression, this file  is
	      tried before pci.ids.

       /proc/bus/pci
	      An  interface  to  PCI  bus  configuration space provided by the
	      post-2.1.82 Linux kernels. Contains per-bus subdirectories  with
	      per-card config space files and a devices file containing a list
	      of all PCI devices.


SEE ALSO
       setpci(8), update-pciids(8)


AUTHOR
       The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>.



pciutils-2.2.4		       09 September 2006		      lspci(8)
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