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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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