Paul Durrant wrote:
> Xiu-Yan Wang wrote:
>> Still internal and cannot be given to customers at this time. There is a
>> push to open source it. The only issue is it gives customers powers to
>> completely break their systems and is completely unservercible.
>>
> 
> There are many ways for a root user to completely break their system. 
> Denying access to PCI config. space does not make a system any less 
> liable to being trashed; OTOH it does annoy a lot of developers (who are 
> used to lspci on Linux).

There is actually a port of lspci for Solaris. I know, because I
I have a copy.

I don't think that lspci is exactly the analog that you think
it is - as far as I'm aware lspci doesn't allow you to put
arbitrary bytes out onto a random PCI bus, whereas pcitool does.



James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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