RE: Probing PCI device..

[Prashant Ramachandra <rprash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Years ago, I wrote a diagnostic utility in DJGPP. It tells you lots about
the PCI devices. And porting the code to Linux (which I'm still doing) isn't
too hard. It will have to be setuid root if you do it. All the best!

http://www.midpec.com/software.html

Prashant TR

On Friday, January 05, 2001 6:22 AM, Vivek Sharma [SMTP:viveks@xxxxxxxxxx]
wrote:
| Hello,
|       I have a analog data acquisition Card based on PCI. I want to
|       write
| a driver for the same on Linux. I have some knowledge of it's
| working and
| also it's register details are with me. But while trying to probe it
| I am
| unable to sort out that, to which class I should put it in. This is
| required as one of the argument to pci_find_class asks the class of
| the
| card. I know the vendorid and deviceid by the help of which I may
| try to
| probe it(this too I haven't tried yet), but if I want to probe it by
| it's
| class argument then to which class does it belong. I tried to find
| out
| from pci.h header file but could not settle down for a class. If
| somebody
| has done some similar work then I would like to seek his/her help
| for the
| same. 
| Also is there any other way to probe the PCI devices. I found a lot
| of
| functions in pci.h but it asks some input argument of type 'struct
| pci_dev
| *' to start somewhere and following this link the code will find out
| other
| pci devices i.e. if I want to probe all the PCI devives then what
| argument
| should I pass to the function pci_find_class or other probing
| functions so
| that I can find out all the PCI devices starting from the very
| first
| device in the linked list.
| 
| Also I am unable to do the probing work in user mode as there are
| no
| supporting libraries for the same. All the libraries for probing
| PCI
| devices are part of the linux kernel. So, is it possible to do so in
| user
| mode, if yes how? Related links will be of great help where I can
| found
| some detailed stuff.



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