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.Dd June 3, 2005
.Dt IOREG 8
.Os Darwin
.Sh NAME
.Nm ioreg
.Nd show I/O Kit registry
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl bfilrsStx
.Op Fl c Ar class
.Op Fl d Ar depth
.Op Fl k Ar key
.Op Fl n Ar name
.Op Fl p Ar plane
.Op Fl w Ar width
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
displays the I/O Kit registry.  It shows the heirarchical registry structure
as an inverted tree.  The provider-client relationships among those objects
is shown as follows:
.Pp
+-o provider
  |
  +-o client
.Pp
By default, object properties are not shown.  The use of the
.Fl c ,
.Fl k ,
.Fl l ,
or
.Fl n
options cause
.Nm
to show properties for objects that match the specified criteria.
.Pp
By supplying the
.Fl r
option, the user may specify the object which will
appear at the root of the tree with the
.Fl c ,
.Fl k ,
or
.Fl n 
options.  If root matches more
than one object, multiple trees will be displayed.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl b
Show the object name in bold.
.It Fl c
Show the object properties only if the object is an instance of, or derives from, the specified
C++
.Ar class
(e.g. IOService).
.It Fl d
Limit tree traversal to the specified
.Ar depth .
The depth limit is
applied with respect to each subtree root individually.  Therefore,
supplying a depth of 1 will cause
.Nm
to display only (sub)tree
root nodes; children will not be shown.
.It Fl f
Enable smart formatting.
.Nm
knows how to format certain properties
so that the output is more readable and meaningful, decoding
data fields where appropriate.  Currently supported are `reg',
`assigned-addresses', `slot-names', `ranges', `interrupt-map',
`interrupt-parent`, and `interrupts'.
.It Fl i
Show the object inheritance.
.It Fl k
Show the object properties only if the object has the specified
.Ar key .
Substrings do not match; the specified key must be a full
property name.
.It Fl l
Show properties for all displayed objects.
.It Fl n
Show the object properties only if the object has the specified
.Ar name .
The object location, if any, is considered part of the name, thus
pci@f0000000 and pci@f4000000 are distinct names.
.It Fl p
Traverse the registry over the specified
.Ar plane .
The default plane value is ``IOService''.  The other planes, such as ``IODeviceTree'', can be found under the ``IORegistryPlanes'' property of the root object (ioreg -d 1 -k IORegistryPlanes).
.It Fl r
Show subtrees rooted by objects that match the specified criteria.  If none of
.Fl c ,
.Fl k ,
or
.Fl n 
are supplied,
.Fl r 
has no effect.
.It Fl s
Show the object state (busy state, retain count).  This is the default.
.It Fl S
Don't show the object state (busy state, retain count).
.It Fl t
Show tree location of each subtree.  This option causes
.Nm
to display all nodes between the I/O Kit Root and the root of the
displayed subtree, i.e. the subtree's parent, grandparent, etc.
.It Fl w
Clip the output to the specified line
.Ar width .
The default width value is the current screen size.  A value of 0 specifies an unlimited line width.
.It Fl x
Show data and numbers as hexadecimal.
.El