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NAME

npe - PCI Express bus nexus driver

DESCRIPTION

The npe nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express Root
Complex devices that provide PCI Express interconnect. This driver is
compliant to PCI Express base specification, Revision 1.0a.


This nexus driver provides support for the following features: Access
to extended configuration space, IEEE 1275 extensions for PCI
Express, Base line PCI Express error handling and PCI Express MSI
interrupts.

FILES

/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/npe

32-bit ELF kernel module.


/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/npe

64-bit ELF kernel module.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+---------------+-------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-------------------------------+
|Architecture | x64 PCI Express-based systems |
+---------------+-------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

pcie_pci(4D), pcie(5), attributes(7)


PCI Express Base Specification v1.0a -- 2003


Writing Device Drivers


IEEE 1275 PCI Bus Binding -- 1998


http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/pci/pci-express.txt

October 12, 2005 NPE(4D)