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 know to what extent PCIE will be supported by XFree86 and in what timeframe? I found a preliminary release note for the Radeon driver in 4.4 that in a PCIE system it will fall back to PCI and should work. But I'm guessing that DRI and other components that use AGP will be crippled in this environment, right?
I'm also aware the XFree86 server likes to roam around and touch things like PCI bridges, I'm wondering how this code will play in a PCIE system. Have any of the XFree86 developers been seeded with PCIE systems and graphics cards and are working on this? What is the extent of changes anticipated to support PCIE only systems? And if so what's the timeframe? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
