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DateMon, 15 Dec 2003 13:20:53 +0200
FromVladimir Kondratiev <>
SubjectRe: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel
Greg KH wrote:

>>Hi,>>PCI-Express platforms will soon appear on the market. It is worth to
>>support it.>> >>>>Yes it is worth it, any chance to get access to hardware to test this
>out on?> >
If it were up to me, I will give away full specs and test platforms. But 
it is not...

>No, we need to get this into 2.6 first.  Can you please forward port
>this to 2.6, clean up the formatting and address the issues everyone
>else has made so far and post it?> >
I will. It take some time, I did not installed 2.6 yet.

>> * command line argument "pci=exp" to force PCI Express, similar to "conf1" and "conf2"
>> 
>>>>We should be able to do this automatically, and not force this on the
>boot command line, correct?> >
Yes. Default is autodetect. Command line is to suppress autodetection.

>How about information on how to detect it as per chipset type?  We need
>to do this automatically some how.>+ * >+ * There is no standard method to recognize presence of PCI Express,
> >>>Are you sure?  I thought there was (don't have my spec in front of me
>right now...)> >
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 ;-) ).

Vladimir.

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