Basic Packages for Linux® From Scratch - Version 2018-09-21

Chapter 4. Administration Tools

pciutils-3.6.2

Introduction to PCI Utils

The PCI Utils package contains a set of programs for listing PCI devices, inspecting their status and setting their configuration registers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pciutils

Installation of PCI Utils

Install PCI Utils by running the following commands: 

make PREFIX=/usr                \
     SHAREDIR=/usr/share/hwdata \
     SHARED=yes

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make PREFIX=/usr                \
     SHAREDIR=/usr/share/hwdata \
     SHARED=yes                 \
     install install-lib        &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpci.so

Command Explanations

SHARED=yes: This parameter enables building of the shared library instead of the static one.

ZLIB=no: This option prevents compression of the pci.ids file.

Configuring PCI Utils

The pci.ids data file is constantly being updated. To get a current version of this file, run update-pciids as the root user. This program requires the Which-2.21 script or program to find curl, lynx or Wget-1.19.5 which are used to download the most current file, and then replace the existing file in /usr/share/hwdata.

You may wish to add an entry to root's (or any other user who has write privilege to /usr/share/hwdata) crontab to automatically update the pci.ids file periodically.

Contents

Installed Programs: lspci, setpci, and update-pciids
Installed Library: libpci.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/pci and /usr/share/hwdata

Short Descriptions

lspci

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

setpci

is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.

update-pciids

fetches the current version of the PCI ID list. Requires curl, lynx, or wget.

libpci.so

is library that allows applications to access the PCI subsystem.

Last updated on 2018-09-22 16:32:07 -0700