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author | bms <bms@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-22 21:14:46 +0000 |
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committer | bms <bms@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-22 21:14:46 +0000 |
commit | 86980c57753da76cef5cebc7e62f4430ba08c242 (patch) | |
tree | b96c9c146cb4164731df96629f3862ef737b56f5 /share/man/man9/pci.9 | |
parent | 57c91a09d8922106e5393b74c93003e798e2df5d (diff) | |
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Add a note about the slot number not necessarily indicating the physical
location of a PCI device in the system chassis.
Remove the note about PAE.
Update document date.
Update my email address.
Update copyright.
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/pci.9')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/pci.9 | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/pci.9 b/share/man/man9/pci.9 index 611a6f0..a15670c 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/pci.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/pci.9 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org> .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 21, 2003 +.Dd Jan 22, 2005 .Dt PCI 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ of a PCI device, given its .Fa slot , and .Fa func . +The +.Fa slot +number actually refers to the number of the device on the bus, +which does not necessarily indicate its geographic location +in terms of a physical slot. .Pp The .Fn pci_find_device @@ -237,7 +242,10 @@ space on the target architecture. .Re .Sh AUTHORS This man page was written by -.An Bruce M Simpson Aq bms@spc.org . +.An Bruce M Simpson Aq bms@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS -This manual page does not yet document PAE and how it affects memory-space -mapping of PCI devices. +The kernel PCI code has a number of references to 'slot numbers'. +These do not refer to the geographic location of PCI devices, +but to the device number assigned by the combination of the PCI IDSEL +mechanism and the platform firmware. +This should be taken note of when working with the kernel PCI code. |