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setpci(8) The PCI Utilities setpci(8)
setpci - configure PCI devices
setpci [options] devices operations...
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.
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.
-r Avoids bus scan if each operation selects a specific device
(uses the -s selector with specific domain, bus, slot, and
function). This is faster, but if the device does not
exist, it fails instead of matching an empty set of
devices.
--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 one 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.
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 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" matches only the
fourth function of each device.
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>][:<class>[:<prog-if>]]
Select devices with specified vendor, device, class ID, and
programming interface. The ID's are given in hexadecimal
and may be omitted or given as "*", both meaning "any
value". The class ID can contain "x" characters which stand
for "any digit".
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.
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 to identify a register:
• Tell its address in hexadecimal.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Each of the previous formats can be followed by +offset to
add an offset (a hex number) to the address. This feature
can be useful for addressing of registers living within a
capability, or to modify parts of standard registers.
• To choose how many bytes (1, 2, or 4) should be
transferred, you should append a width specifier .B, .W, or
.L. The width can be omitted if you are referring to a
register by its name and the width of the register is well
known.
• Finally, if a capability exists multiple times you can
choose which one to target using @number. Indexing starts
at 0.
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.
lspci(8), pcilib(7)
The PCI Utilities are maintained by Martin Mares <[email protected]>.
This page is part of the pciutils (PCI utilities) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, send it to [email protected]. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2025-07-07.) If you discover
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COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
mail to [email protected]
pciutils-3.10.0 01 May 2023 setpci(8)
Pages that refer to this page: proc_bus(5), pcilib(7), lspci(8)
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