Re: PCI Express

Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-07T16:50:35Z

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:48:13AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:42:08PM -0600, Colin Ngam wrote:
> > Are PCIE devices supported in ia64?
>
> I'm having trouble with the word "supported".
> You have a PCI-E Bridge and firmware that can talk to it
> hooked up to an ia64 box?
>
> Anyway, linux has some PCI-E support in the generic PCI code.

... and I wrote the ia64-specific bits to access extended PCI config space
through the SAL PCI accessors. See PCI_SAL_EXT_ADDRESS().

Various PCIe features are in the process of being added. It all depends
what you mean when you say "supported".

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