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From: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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You know, I am also thinking in this direction. I already started 
conversation to implement some standard method.

Vladimir.

Andi Kleen wrote:

>Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com> writes:
>  
>
>>I thought this way also. But I found that it is not. You may know
>>several chipsets,
>>and do per-chipset stuff, but there is no generic procedure. At least
>>authors of PCI-E
>>don't know (it is nice to have access to the authors ;-) ).
>>    
>>
>
>This sounds like a serious design flaw in PCI-Express. Can you 
>ask them to address this before it is too late? 
>
>-Andi
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>