Re: PCI Express

2004-02-04 Thread John Dennis
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:37, Marc Aurele La France wrote: PCI-Xpress is programmatically identical to PCI, so I don't forsee any problems in that regard. Yes, its identical to PCI in terms of the interface presented to the OS so configuration probably won't be an issue, but there is code in

Re: PCI Express

2004-02-04 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 4 Feb 2004, John Dennis wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:37, Marc Aurele La France wrote: PCI-Xpress is programmatically identical to PCI, so I don't forsee any problems in that regard. Yes, its identical to PCI in terms of the interface presented to the OS so configuration probably

Re: PCI Express

2004-02-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
are. At the risk of being flippant: Try it. Actual problems are always easier to debug than theoritical ones. Marc. I've been told that it works, but PCI Express performance is poor on Linux. But that could be for any number of reasons. Certainly, the sky is not falling. People are expected

PCI Express

2004-02-03 Thread John Dennis
In a few months PCI Express (PCIE) will hit the streets. My understanding is that some system vendors are building system boards without any AGP slots. As far as I know that means only an old style PCI graphics card will work (PCIE is fully compatible with PCI), or a new PCIE card. Does anybody

Re: PCI Express

2004-02-03 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 3 Feb 2004, John Dennis wrote: In a few months PCI Express (PCIE) will hit the streets. My understanding is that some system vendors are building system boards without any AGP slots. As far as I know that means only an old style PCI graphics card will work (PCIE is fully compatible