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27.Dd January 3, 2008
28.Dt PCI 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm pci
32.Nd generic PCI driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd device pci
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver provides a way for userland programs to read and write
39.Tn PCI
40configuration registers.
41It also provides a way for userland programs to get a list of all
42.Tn PCI
43devices, or all
44.Tn PCI
45devices that match various patterns.
46.Pp
47Since the
48.Nm
49driver provides a write interface for
50.Tn PCI
51configuration registers, system administrators should exercise caution when
52granting access to the
53.Nm
54device.
55If used improperly, this driver can allow userland applications to
56crash a machine or cause data loss.
57.Pp
58The
59.Nm
60driver implements the
61.Tn PCI
62bus in the kernel.
63It enumerates any devices on the
64.Tn PCI
65bus and gives
66.Tn PCI
67client drivers the chance to attach to them.
68It assigns resources to children, when the BIOS does not.
69It takes care of routing interrupts when necessary.
70It reprobes the unattached
71.Tn PCI
72children when
73.Tn PCI
74client drivers are dynamically
75loaded at runtime.
76.Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
77The
78.Nm
79device is included in the kernel as described in the SYNOPSIS section.
80The
81.Nm
82driver cannot be built as a
83.Xr kld 4 .
84.Sh IOCTLS
85The following
86.Xr ioctl 2
87calls are supported by the
88.Nm
89driver.
90They are defined in the header file
91.In sys/pciio.h .
92.Bl -tag -width 012345678901234
93.Pp
94.It PCIOCGETCONF
95This
96.Xr ioctl 2
97takes a
98.Va pci_conf_io
99structure.
100It allows the user to retrieve information on all
101.Tn PCI
102devices in the system, or on
103.Tn PCI
104devices matching patterns supplied by the user.
105The call may set
106.Va errno
107to any value specified in either
108.Xr copyin 9
109or
110.Xr copyout 9 .
111The
112.Va pci_conf_io
113structure consists of a number of fields:
114.Bl -tag -width match_buf_len
115.It pat_buf_len
116The length, in bytes, of the buffer filled with user-supplied patterns.
117.It num_patterns
118The number of user-supplied patterns.
119.It patterns
120Pointer to a buffer filled with user-supplied patterns.
121.Va patterns
122is a pointer to
123.Va num_patterns
124.Va pci_match_conf
125structures.
126The
127.Va pci_match_conf
128structure consists of the following elements:
129.Bl -tag -width pd_vendor
130.It pc_sel
131.Tn PCI
132domain, bus, slot and function.
133.It pd_name
134.Tn PCI
135device driver name.
136.It pd_unit
137.Tn PCI
138device driver unit number.
139.It pc_vendor
140.Tn PCI
141vendor ID.
142.It pc_device
143.Tn PCI
144device ID.
145.It pc_class
146.Tn PCI
147device class.
148.It flags
149The flags describe which of the fields the kernel should match against.
150A device must match all specified fields in order to be returned.
151The match flags are enumerated in the
152.Va pci_getconf_flags
153structure.
154Hopefully the flag values are obvious enough that they do not need to
155described in detail.
156.El
157.It match_buf_len
158Length of the
159.Va matches
160buffer allocated by the user to hold the results of the
161.Dv PCIOCGETCONF
162query.
163.It num_matches
164Number of matches returned by the kernel.
165.It matches
166Buffer containing matching devices returned by the kernel.
167The items in this buffer are of type
168.Va pci_conf ,
169which consists of the following items:
170.Bl -tag -width pc_subvendor
171.It pc_sel
172.Tn PCI
173domain, bus, slot and function.
174.It pc_hdr
175.Tn PCI
176header type.
177.It pc_subvendor
178.Tn PCI
179subvendor ID.
180.It pc_subdevice
181.Tn PCI
182subdevice ID.
183.It pc_vendor
184.Tn PCI
185vendor ID.
186.It pc_device
187.Tn PCI
188device ID.
189.It pc_class
190.Tn PCI
191device class.
192.It pc_subclass
193.Tn PCI
194device subclass.
195.It pc_progif
196.Tn PCI
197device programming interface.
198.It pc_revid
199.Tn PCI
200revision ID.
201.It pd_name
202Driver name.
203.It pd_unit
204Driver unit number.
205.El
206.It offset
207The offset is passed in by the user to tell the kernel where it should
208start traversing the device list.
209The value passed out by the kernel
210points to the record immediately after the last one returned.
211The user may
212pass the value returned by the kernel in subsequent calls to the
213.Dv PCIOCGETCONF
214ioctl.
215If the user does not intend to use the offset, it must be set to zero.
216.It generation
217.Tn PCI
218configuration generation.
219This value only needs to be set if the offset is set.
220The kernel will compare the current generation number of its internal
221device list to the generation passed in by the user to determine whether
222its device list has changed since the user last called the
223.Dv PCIOCGETCONF
224ioctl.
225If the device list has changed, a status of
226.Va PCI_GETCONF_LIST_CHANGED
227will be passed back.
228.It status
229The status tells the user the disposition of his request for a device list.
230The possible status values are:
231.Bl -ohang
232.It PCI_GETCONF_LAST_DEVICE
233This means that there are no more devices in the PCI device list after the
234ones returned in the
235.Va matches
236buffer.
237.It PCI_GETCONF_LIST_CHANGED
238This status tells the user that the
239.Tn PCI
240device list has changed since his last call to the
241.Dv PCIOCGETCONF
242ioctl and he must reset the
243.Va offset
244and
245.Va generation
246to zero to start over at the beginning of the list.
247.It PCI_GETCONF_MORE_DEVS
248This tells the user that his buffer was not large enough to hold all of the
249remaining devices in the device list that possibly match his criteria.
250It is possible for this status to be returned, even when none of the remaining
251devices in the list would match the user's criteria.
252.It PCI_GETCONF_ERROR
253This indicates a general error while servicing the user's request.
254If the
255.Va pat_buf_len
256is not equal to
257.Va num_patterns
258times
259.Fn sizeof "struct pci_match_conf" ,
260.Va errno
261will be set to
262.Er EINVAL .
263.El
264.El
265.It PCIOCREAD
266This
267.Xr ioctl 2
268reads the
269.Tn PCI
270configuration registers specified by the passed-in
271.Va pci_io
272structure.
273The
274.Va pci_io
275structure consists of the following fields:
276.Bl -tag -width pi_width
277.It pi_sel
278A
279.Va pcisel
280structure which specifies the domain, bus, slot and function the user would
281like to query.
282If the specific bus is not found, errno will be set to ENODEV and -1 returned
283from the ioctl.
284.It pi_reg
285The
286.Tn PCI
287configuration register the user would like to access.
288.It pi_width
289The width, in bytes, of the data the user would like to read.
290This value
291may be either 1, 2, or 4.
2923-byte reads and reads larger than 4 bytes are
293not supported.
294If an invalid width is passed, errno will be set to EINVAL.
295.It pi_data
296The data returned by the kernel.
297.El
298.It PCIOCWRITE
299This
300.Xr ioctl 2
301allows users to write to the
302.Tn PCI
303specified in the passed-in
304.Va pci_io
305structure.
306The
307.Va pci_io
308structure is described above.
309The limitations on data width described for
310reading registers, above, also apply to writing
311.Tn PCI
312configuration registers.
313.El
314.Sh FILES
315.Bl -tag -width /dev/pci -compact
316.It Pa /dev/pci
317Character device for the
318.Nm
319driver.
320.El
321.Sh SEE ALSO
322.Xr pciconf 8
323.Sh HISTORY
324The
325.Nm
326driver (not the kernel's
327.Tn PCI
328support code) first appeared in
329.Fx 2.2 ,
330and was written by Stefan Esser and Garrett Wollman.
331Support for device listing and matching was re-implemented by
332Kenneth Merry, and first appeared in
333.Fx 3.0 .
334.Sh AUTHORS
335.An Kenneth Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org
336.Sh BUGS
337It is not possible for users to specify an accurate offset into the device
338list without calling the
339.Dv PCIOCGETCONF
340at least once, since they have no way of knowing the current generation
341number otherwise.
342This probably is not a serious problem, though, since
343users can easily narrow their search by specifying a pattern or patterns
344for the kernel to match against.
345