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setpci(8) The PCI Utilities setpci(8)
NAME
setpci - configure PCI devices
SYNOPSIS
setpci [options] devices operations...
DESCRIPTION
setpci is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.
All numbers are entered in hexadecimal notation.
OPTIONS
-v Tells setpci to be verbose and display detailed information
about configuration space accesses.
-f Tells setpci not to complain when there's nothing to do (when
no devices are selected). This option is intended for use in
widely-distributed configuration scripts where it's uncertain
whether the device in question is present in the machine or
not.
-D 'Demo mode' -- don't write anything to the configuration regis-
ters. It's useful to try setpci -vD to see what your complex
sequence of setpci operations does before you actually execute
it.
--version
Shows setpci version. This option should be used stand-alone.
DEVICE SELECTION
Before each sequence of operations you need to select which devices
you wish that operation to affect.
-s [[[[]:]]:][][.[]]
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 []:[]
Select 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".
OPERATIONS
To query value of a configuration register, just name it (either by
typing its name or by typing register address with optional .B, .W or
.L suffix specifying register width as byte, word or longword).
To set a register, write reg=values where reg is the same as you would
use to query the register and values is a comma-separated list of
values you want to write starting with the given address. Each value
to be written can be specified either as a hexadecimal number or as a
bits:mask pair which causes the bits corresponding to binary ones in
the mask to be changed to values of the corresponding bits in the bits
REGISTER NAMES
setpci knows the following configuration register names. See PCI bus
specs for their precise meaning or consult /usr/include/linux/pci.h
for few comments.
VENDOR_ID
DEVICE_ID
COMMAND
STATUS
REVISION
CLASS_PROG
CLASS_DEVICE
CACHE_LINE_SIZE
LATENCY_TIMER
HEADER_TYPE
BIST
BASE_ADDRESS_0
BASE_ADDRESS_1
BASE_ADDRESS_2
BASE_ADDRESS_3
BASE_ADDRESS_4
BASE_ADDRESS_5
CARDBUS_CIS
SUBSYSTEM_VENDOR_ID
SUBSYSTEM_ID
ROM_ADDRESS
INTERRUPT_LINE
INTERRUPT_PIN
MIN_GNT
MAX_LAT
PRIMARY_BUS
SECONDARY_BUS
SUBORDINATE_BUS
SEC_LATENCY_TIMER
IO_BASE
IO_LIMIT
SEC_STATUS
MEMORY_BASE
MEMORY_LIMIT
PREF_MEMORY_BASE
PREF_MEMORY_LIMIT
PREF_BASE_UPPER32
PREF_LIMIT_UPPER32
IO_BASE_UPPER16
IO_LIMIT_UPPER16
BRIDGE_ROM_ADDRESS
BRIDGE_CONTROL
CB_CARDBUS_BASE
CB_CAPABILITIES
CB_SEC_STATUS
CB_BUS_NUMBER
CB_CARDBUS_NUMBER
CB_SUBORDINATE_BUS
CB_CARDBUS_LATENCY
CB_MEMORY_BASE_0
CB_MEMORY_LIMIT_0
CB_MEMORY_BASE_1
CB_MEMORY_LIMIT_1
CB_IO_BASE_0
CB_IO_BASE_0_HI
CB_IO_LIMIT_0
CB_IO_LIMIT_0_HI
CB_IO_BASE_1
CB_IO_BASE_1_HI
CB_IO_LIMIT_1
CB_IO_LIMIT_1_HI
CB_SUBSYSTEM_VENDOR_ID
CB_SUBSYSTEM_ID
CB_LEGACY_MODE_BASE
PCILIB OPTIONS
The PCI utilities use PCILIB (a portable library providing platform-
independent functions for PCI configuration space access) to talk to
the PCI cards. The following options control parameters of the
library, especially what access method it uses. By default, PCILIB
uses the first available access method and displays no debugging mes-
sages. Each switch is accompanied by a list of hardware/software con-
figurations it's supported in.
-P
Force use of Linux /proc/bus/pci style configuration access,
using <dir> instead of /proc/bus/pci. (Linux 2.1 or newer only)
-H1 Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1.
(i386 and compatible only)
-H2 Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 2.
Warning: This method is able to address only first 16 devices
on any bus and it seems to be very unreliable in many cases.
(i386 and compatible only)
-F
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. (All systems)
-G Increase debug level of the library. (All systems)
EXAMPLES
'setpci -d *:* latency_timer=40' sets the latency timer to 64 (40 hex-
adecimal).
'setpci -s 0 device_id vendor_id' lists ID's of devices in slot 0 in
all busses.
'setpci -s 12:3.4 3c.l=1,2,3' writes longword 1 to register 3c, 2 to
register 3d and 3 to register 3e of device at bus 12, slot 3, function
4.
'setpci -s 13:8.4 40.b=50:d0,04:0c,ff' works on bus 13, device 8,
function 4: turns bit 7 off and bits 6 and 4 on in the byte register
40; turns bit 3 off and bit 2 on in the byte register 41; sets byte
register 42 to ff.
SEE ALSO
lspci(8)
AUTHOR
The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares .
pciutils-2.1.99-test8 13 August 2004 setpci(8)
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