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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.

       Root  privileges  are  necessary  for  almost all operations, excluding reads of the standard header of the configuration
       space on some operating systems.  Please see lspci(8) for details on access rights.


OPTIONS
   General 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 registers.  It's useful to try setpci -vD to verify  that
              your complex sequence of setpci operations does what you think it should do.

       --version
              Show setpci version. This option should be used stand-alone.

       --help Show detailed help on available options. This option should be used stand-alone.

       --dumpregs
              Show a list of all known PCI registers and capabilities. This option should be used stand-alone.


   PCI access options
       The  PCI  utilities  use  the  PCI  library to talk to PCI devices (see pcilib(7) for details). You can use the following
       options to influence its behavior:

       -A <method>
              The library supports a variety of methods to access the PCI hardware.  By default, it uses the first access method
              available,  but you can use this option to override this decision. See -A help for a list of available methods and
              their descriptions.

       -O <param>=<value>
              The behavior of the library is controlled by several named parameters.  This option allows to set the value of any
              of the parameters. Use -O help for a list of known parameters and their default values.

       -H1    Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1.  (This is a shorthand for -A intel-conf1.)

       -H2    Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 2.  (This is a shorthand for -A intel-conf2.)

       -G     Increase debug level of the library.


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

       -s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]]
              Consider  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 omit-
              ted 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"
              matches only the 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 "*", both meaning "any value".

       When  -s  and -d are combined, only devices that match both criteria are selected. When multiple options of the same kind
       are specified, the rightmost one overrides the others.


OPERATIONS
       There are two kinds of operations: reads and writes. To read a register, just specify its  name.  Writes  have  the  form
       name=value,value...   where  each value is either a hexadecimal number or an expression of type data:mask where both data
       and mask are hexadecimal numbers. In the latter case, only the bits corresponding to binary ones in the mask are  changed
       (technically, this is a read-modify-write operation).


       There are several ways how to identity a register:

       o      Tell its address in hexadecimal.

       o      Spell  its  name.  Setpci  knows  the  names  of  all registers in the standard configuration headers. Use `setpci
              --dumpregs' to get the complete list.  See PCI bus specifications for the precise meaning of  these  registers  or
              consult header.h or /usr/include/pci/pci.h for a brief sketch.

       o      If  the  register  is a part of a PCI capability, you can specify the name of the capability to get the address of
              its first register. See the names starting with `CAP_' or `ECAP_' in the --dumpregs output.

       o      If the name of the capability is not known to setpci, you can refer to it by its  number  in  the  form  CAPid  or
              ECAPid, where id is the numeric identifier of the capability in hexadecimal.

       o      Each  of the previous formats can be followed by +offset to add an offset (a hex number) to the address. This fea-
              ture can be useful for addressing of registers living within a capability, or to modify parts of  standard  regis-
              ters.   IP  o  Finally,  you  should  append a width specifier .B, .W, or .L to choose how many bytes (1, 2, or 4)
              should be transferred. The width can be omitted if you are accessing a named register whose width is well known.


       All names of registers and width specifiers are case-insensitive.


EXAMPLES
       COMMAND
              asks for the word-sized command register.

       4.w    is a numeric address of the same register.

       COMMAND.l
              asks for a 32-bit word starting at the location of the command register, i.e., the command  and  status  registers
              together.

       VENDOR_ID+1.b
              specifies the upper byte of the vendor ID register (remember, PCI is little-endian).

       CAP_PM+2.w
              corresponds to the second word of the power management capability.

       ECAP108.l
              asks for the first 32-bit word of the extended capability with ID 0x108.


SEE ALSO
       lspci(8), pcilib(7)


AUTHOR
       The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <mjATucw.cz>.



pciutils-3.1.7                                           31 January 2010                                               setpci(8)

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