Currently the revision isn't available via sysfs/libudev thus if one wants
to know the value one needs to read through the config file, which can be
quite time-consuming because it wakes/powers up the device.
There are at least two userspace components which could make use the new
file: libpciaccess and libdrm. The former wakes up _every_ PCI device,
which can be observed via glxinfo when using Mesa 10.0+ drivers. The
latter, in association with Mesa 13.0, can lead to 2-3 second delays while
starting firefox, thunderbird or chromium.
Link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98502
Tested-by: Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
a firmware bug to the system vendor. Writing to this file
taints the kernel with TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, which
reduces the supportability of your system.
+
+What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../revision
+Date: November 2016
+Contact: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ This file contains the revision field of the the PCI device.
+ The value comes from device config space. The file is read only.
| |-- resource0
| |-- resource1
| |-- resource2
+ | |-- revision
| |-- rom
| |-- subsystem_device
| |-- subsystem_vendor
resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw[1])
resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
+ revision PCI revision (ascii, ro)
rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro)
pci_config_attr(device, "0x%04x\n");
pci_config_attr(subsystem_vendor, "0x%04x\n");
pci_config_attr(subsystem_device, "0x%04x\n");
+pci_config_attr(revision, "0x%02x\n");
pci_config_attr(class, "0x%06x\n");
pci_config_attr(irq, "%u\n");
&dev_attr_device.attr,
&dev_attr_subsystem_vendor.attr,
&dev_attr_subsystem_device.attr,
+ &dev_attr_revision.attr,
&dev_attr_class.attr,
&dev_attr_irq.attr,
&dev_attr_local_cpus.attr,