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From: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@st.com>
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Subject: Re: PCIE: Program pcie device private registers
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:12:38PM +0800, shiv prakash Agarwal wrote:
>    Hi All,
> 
>     
> 
>    One query:
> 
>     
> 
>    We can program config space registers of a pcie device using setpci but
>    how can we program private registers of a pcie device?

You mean application specific registers?
These registers will not be accessible through any generic user space program.

If you want to access them for debug purposes then you can provide
support in your driver.

Regards
Pratyush
> 
>    Can it be done through PCIE interface or something else?
> 
>     
> 
>    With best,
> 
>    Jay