Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:00:37 +0330 From: s m <sam.gh1986@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find slot number and number of ports for each card Message-ID: <CAA_1SgHYwVVzaELHcOwrrd_UY3cSsjkUvWt0NA5BF1gB5wbGLw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121001114809.GA44965@kontrol.kode5.net> References: <CAN%2BS=WAZ1VP06_HytYx9xVQ0eu949QRoB1Y7Yp0zgYDYP2nYJg@mail.gmail.com> <D4CF89CB-4E1B-48EB-B420-D5328FC7D807@fisglobal.com> <20121001114809.GA44965@kontrol.kode5.net>
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thanks every body for your answers. now i know my path.
thanks again
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> wrote:
> [ Devin Teske wrote on Sat 29.Sep'12 at 12:32:04 -0700 ]
>
> >
> > On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:37 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
> >
> > > hello all
> > >
> > > i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of car=
d
> > > that are installed on my system,
> >
> > Card characteristics are provided by "pciconf -l".
> > ("pciconf -lv" for verbose listing).
> >
> > Two important notes about "pciconf -l"=85
> >
> > 1. It lists more than just "cards"
> > 2. The "type" can't always be determined by FreeBSD
> >
> > When looking at the output of "pciconf -l", each line represents a
> > component (this can be an integrated component on the mother-
> > board, such as USB port, not necessarily a PCI add-in card).
> >
> > If the line begins with "none@" then a driver has not attached to
> > this device (and FreeBSD therefore doesn't know what "type" it is).
> > In this case, you'll want to look at the "chip=3D" portion of the line.
> > The "chip=3D" portion of the line gives you two very important pieces
> > of information when it comes to identifying your hardware:
> >
> > a. The 4-digit hexadecimal identifier for the Model of the device
> > b. The 4-digit hexadecimal identifier for the Vendor of the device
> >
> > (in that order from left-to-right)
> >
> > Let's look at a sample line:
> >
> > vgapci0@pci0:2:9:0: class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x00081002 chip=3D0x47521=
002
> rev=3D0x27 hdr=3D0x00
> >
> > NOTE: That's my graphics card on an ASUSTek P4B533 motherboard
> >
> > In the above line, see "chip=3D0x47521002".
> > In this case, "4752" is the Model identifier
> > and "1002" is the Vendor identifier.
> >
> > If you're a human and you want to know what these numbers are,
> > you hop on over to pcidatabase.com and punch in the numbers to
> > find out that this is a [particularly ancient] ATI Rage XL graphics car=
d.
> >
> > If you're not a human (i.e., a script), you'll instead reference a loca=
l
> > copy of the "pci.ids" (/usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids for example):
> >
> > $ grep '1002 4752' /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids
> > 1002 4752 Proliant Rage XL
> >
> >
> >
> > > the number of ports that each card has
> >
> > That one is near impossible.
> >
> > Since every add-in card is going function differently, you really need
> > a device-specific enumeration method to (for example) count things
> > like PHYs provided by a single NIC.
> >
> > Imagine if you will, the case of the card for which there is no driver
> > loaded in the kernel (where "pciconf -l" shows a "none@" prefix).
> > There really is no way to enumerate the number of "ports" a card
> > offers in that circumstance.
> >
> > However!
> >
> > You can build logic into your code (if you are scripting something)
> > that takes the description from the pci.ids file (or just the raw hex
> IDs)
> > and extrapolates based on prior-knowledge how many ports a
> > particular device has.
> >
> >
> >
> > > and the slot number which cards are installed.
> >
> > That's provided by pciconf.
> >
> > Also, it's worth mentioning the excellent "dmidecode" tool from the
> > ports tree. This too can enumerate the slots themselves (and tell you
> > whether they are PCI, PCI-X, PCIe, etc. including voltage. Search
> > for "System Slot Information" in the dmidecode output for this info.
> > --
> > Devin
>
> This is interesting. I'm glad this question was raised, because i've
> noticed i've got two "none@" lines listed when using pciconf -lv. I've
> been trying to figure out what these are over the last week but to no
> avail. They must be there for some purpose and I wondered if i'm missing
> some important driver because of this.
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