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* Status of pci express in kernel
@ 2004-06-21 17:12 areversat
  2004-06-21 17:28 ` Roland Dreier
  2004-06-22  0:03 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: areversat @ 2004-06-21 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Hi,

I've read today that intel is going to launch it's first pci express
chipsets soon. So i was wondering if the support of this bus was already
a work in progress or if it wasn't yet started ?

Thanks

Antoine Reversat

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* Re: Status of pci express in kernel
  2004-06-21 17:12 Status of pci express in kernel areversat
@ 2004-06-21 17:28 ` Roland Dreier
  2004-06-22  0:03 ` Greg KH
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Roland Dreier @ 2004-06-21 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: areversat; +Cc: linux-kernel

    areversat> Hi, I've read today that intel is going to launch it's
    areversat> first pci express chipsets soon. So i was wondering if
    areversat> the support of this bus was already a work in progress
    areversat> or if it wasn't yet started ?

PCI Express is backwards compatible with standard PCI, so even fairly
old Linux kernels boot and work fine with PCI Express devices.  2.6
kernels also have support for accessing the new features of PCI
Express (ie extended PCI header fields).

 - Roland

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* Re: Status of pci express in kernel
  2004-06-21 17:12 Status of pci express in kernel areversat
  2004-06-21 17:28 ` Roland Dreier
@ 2004-06-22  0:03 ` Greg KH
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2004-06-22  0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: areversat; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:12:00PM +0200, areversat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read today that intel is going to launch it's first pci express
> chipsets soon. So i was wondering if the support of this bus was already
> a work in progress or if it wasn't yet started ?

It's already in the 2.6 kernel tree.

thanks,

greg k-h

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