/usr/bin/lspci --help — Chainguard OS Manuals

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Usage: lspci [<switches>]

Basic display modes:
-mm		Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t		Show bus tree

Display options:
-v		Be verbose (-vv or -vvv for higher verbosity)
-k		Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x		Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx		Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx		Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b		Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D		Always show domain numbers
-P		Display bridge path in addition to bus and device number
-PP		Display bus path in addition to bus and device number

Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n		Show numeric ID's
-nn		Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q		Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq		As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q		Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS

Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]]	Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>][:<class>]		Show only devices with specified ID's

Other options:
-i <file>	Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
-p <file>	Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M		Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)

PCI access options:
-A <method>	Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val>	Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G		Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode>	Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file>	Read PCI configuration dump from a given file

Options (32)

Option	Description	Source
`-mm`	Dump PCI device data in a machine readable form for easy parsing by scripts.	help + man
`-t`	Show a tree-like diagram containing all buses, bridges, devices and connections between them.	help + man
`-v`	Be verbose and display detailed information about all devices.	help + man
`-k`	Show kernel drivers handling each device and also kernel modules capable of handling it.	help + man
`-x`	Show hexadecimal dump of the standard part of the configuration space (the first 64 bytes or 128 bytes for CardBus bridges).	help + man
`-xxx`	Show hexadecimal dump of the whole PCI configuration space.	help + man
`-xxxx`	Show hexadecimal dump of the extended (4096-byte) PCI configuration space available on PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express buses.	help + man
`-b`	Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)	help + man
`-D`	Always show PCI domain numbers.	help + man
`-P`	Identify PCI devices by path through each bridge, instead of by bus number.	help + man
`-PP`	Identify PCI devices by path through each bridge, showing the bus number as well as the device number.	help + man
`-n`	Show PCI vendor and device codes as numbers instead of looking them up in the PCI ID list.	help + man
`-nn`	Show PCI vendor and device codes as both numbers and names.	help + man
`-q`	Use DNS to query the central PCI ID database if a device is not found in the local pci.ids file.	help + man
`-qq`	As above, but re-query locally cached entries	help + man
`-Q`	Query the central database even for entries which are recognized locally.	help + man
`-s` domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func	Show only devices in selected slots	help
`-d` vendor>]:[<device>][:<class	Show only devices with specified ID's	help
`-i` file	Use <file> as the PCI ID list instead of /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids.	help + man
`-p` file	Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap	help + man
`-M`	Invoke bus mapping mode which performs a thorough scan of all PCI devices, including those behind misconfigured bridges, etc.	help + man
`-A` method	The library supports a variety of methods to access the PCI hardware.	help + man
`-O` par>=<val	The behavior of the library is controlled by several named parameters.	help + man
`-G`	Increase debug level of the library.	help + man
`-H` mode	Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)	help
`-F` file	Instead of accessing real hardware, read the list of devices and values of their configuration registers from the given file produced by an earlier run of lspci -x.	help + man
`-m`	Dump PCI device data in a backward-compatible machine readable form. (in the manual page but not in --help)	man
`-vv`	Be very verbose and display more details. (in the manual page but not in --help)	man
`-vvv`	Be even more verbose and display everything we are able to parse, even if it doesn't look interesting at all (e.g., undefined memory regions). (in the manual page but not in --help)	man
`--version`	Shows lspci version. (in the manual page but not in --help)	man
`-H1`	Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1. (in the manual page but not in --help)	man
`-H2`	Use direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 2. (in the manual page but not in --help)	man

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