pciutils ☆

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Description:
PCI utilities

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: hardware system-utilities pci debugging linux

Install: brew install pciutils

About:
Pciutils is a collection of utilities for inspecting and manipulating devices connected to the PCI bus. It provides essential tools like lspci and setpci for listing devices and configuring their parameters. This suite is vital for system administrators and developers managing hardware resources and debugging driver issues.

Key Features:

lspci for listing all PCI devices
setpci for configuring PCI device parameters
pcimodules for listing loaded kernel modules
Verbose hardware decoding capabilities

Use Cases:

Debugging hardware detection issues during system boot
Verifying PCI device configurations and resource allocation
Scripting hardware inventory for system audits

Alternatives:

lshw – lshw provides a broader overview of all hardware, whereas pciutils focuses specifically on the PCI bus.
sysfs – Sysfs provides raw kernel data; pciutils offers a user-friendly CLI interface to parse and manipulate that data.

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