Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:40:09 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: PCI-X support |
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:00:15PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, christos gentsis wrote: > > >Hello > > > >I have a friend that his Msc project is related with the development > >over a PCI-X card. the problem is that he do not know if the Linux > >kernel support the PCI-X bus. i try to find something related with the > >PCI-X in the kernel source but i didn't found any file or folder with a > >relevant name... Does any one know if PCI-X bus supported from Linux and > >if no how can he patch the kernel to support it...? > > > >Thanks > >Chris > > Sure PCI-X is just PCI/66 with 64-bits. It's just like PCI/66 > from a software standpoint.
Not really. 64-bit 66MHz PCI is normal PCI, within the PCI 2.1 spec. Common PCI-X is running at 133MHz, 64-bit wide.
You're correct, though, that from the software standpoint it's not much different and Linux supports it natively. I'm not sure about MSI-X extensions, though.
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