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 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? PCI-Xpress is programmatically identical to PCI, so I don't forsee any problems in that regard. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
