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setpci (8)

configure PCI devices

SYNOPSIS

    setpci [ options ] devices operations ...

DESCRIPTION

    setpci is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.

    To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel 2.1.82 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/pci interface. With older kernels, the PCI utilities have to use direct hardware access which is available only to root and it suffers from numerous race conditions and other problems.

    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' -- simulate configuration space accesses instead of really doing them. It's useful to try setpci -vD to see what your complex sequence of setpci operations does before you actually execute it.

DEVICE SELECTION

    Before each sequence of operations you need to select which devices you wish that operation to affect.

    -s [[<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]]

      Select devices in specified bus, slot and function. Each component of the device address can be omitted or set as "*" 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 busses and ".4" selects only fourth function of each device.

    -d [<vendor>]:[<device>]

      Select devices with specified vendor and device ID. Both ID's are given in hexadecimal and may be omitted or given as "*" 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 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.

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 messages. Each switch is accompanied by a list of hardware/software configurations it's supported in.

    -P <dir>

      Use Linux 2.1 style configuration access to directory <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 unrealiable in many cases. (i386 and compatible only)

    -S

      Use PCI access syscalls. (Linux on Alpha and UltraSparc only)

    -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. (All systems)

    -G

      Increase debug level of the library. (All systems)

EXAMPLES

    `setpci -d *:* latency_timer=40' sets the latency timer to 64 (40 hexadecimal).

    `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.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

    The Linux PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mj@suse.cz>.