Re: PCI express card that does AP mode? (abit wlp-01?)

Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24T15:45:04Z

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 11:23 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
>> I tried to add a link for PCI Express devices, but I don't have
>> permissions to reorganize the Wiki to have a separate table.
>
>> From the users' perspective, PCI and PCI Express are different busses
>> and should be listed separately.
>
> I'm not sure. The ID spaces are the same really, and users really don't
> distinguish that much, for them PCI-E is just the new PCI technology
> with a different form factor. Kinda like mini-pci vs. pci.

Speaking as a user, I do want to distinguish them: PCIe fits into a
physically different slot from PCI, so having only PCIe slots free, I
really did want to select by socket type. Similarly someone with a PCI
only motherboard would be looking for PCI and not PCIe.

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Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk