On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Grant Grundler wrote:
>
> http://cmclab.rice.edu/projects/giganic/datasheets/PCI/SPECS/Pci22.pdf
> and
> http://www.singlix.org/trdos/PCI22.pdf
yikes. That's cool. They used to charge for it, I think all my copies are bootleg.
Wait, was the microphone on when I said that? I was taken out of context!
The PCI-SIG provides specs free to its member companies and charges for physical copies (the membership fees for the PCI-SIG are substantially less than for the IBTA and there are other benefits of membership beyond free specs). There are special discounts in place for academic purposes. Given there are over 900 companies in the PCI-SIG and I suspect a large percentage of the people on this reflector work for member companies, you should have free access to the specs (Grant has full access via an internal website I manage for distribution of such material within HP). I would also note that the latest specs are:
PCI 3.0 for conventional PCI
PCI-X 2.0a for PCI-X
PCIe 1.0a for PCI Express (will soon be 1.1 which incorporates nearly all of the ECN / errata generated over the past year as well as the corrected error handling that will be important for people to understand since the 1.0a spec is broken in this regard - a final ECN for 1.0a should also become available shortly).
BTW, MSI-X was technology originally conceived within HP many years ago (~15) and developed within the PCI-SIG as an extension to MSI a couple of years ago (I first proposed it during the development of PCI Express and we decided to make it applicable to all PCI technologies - ECN exist for all three types).
Mike
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