Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Status of pci express in kernel | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:28:48 -0700 |
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areversat> Hi, I've read today that intel is going to launch it's areversat> first pci express chipsets soon. So i was wondering if areversat> the support of this bus was already a work in progress areversat> or if it wasn't yet started ?
PCI Express is backwards compatible with standard PCI, so even fairly old Linux kernels boot and work fine with PCI Express devices. 2.6 kernels also have support for accessing the new features of PCI Express (ie extended PCI header fields).
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