Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel

From: Vladimir Kondratiev
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 10:41:50 EST


You know, I am also thinking in this direction. I already started conversation to implement some standard method.

Vladimir.

Andi Kleen wrote:

Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


I thought this way also. But I found that it is not. You may know
several chipsets,
and do per-chipset stuff, but there is no generic procedure. At least
authors of PCI-E
don't know (it is nice to have access to the authors ;-) ).



This sounds like a serious design flaw in PCI-Express. Can you ask them to address this before it is too late?

-Andi



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