James C. McPherson writes:
 > 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.

Solaris/x86 is a supported target for pciutils
(http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.shtml). 

Or do you mean you have a sparc binary?

 > 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.

No, but setpci / libpci does.

Further, the bridges on sparc systems seem to be rather
fragile, and will crash the system if you read their
configuration space.

Drew
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