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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:05:02 +0100
From: christos gentsis <christos_gentsis@yahoo.co.uk>
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, christos gentsis wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a friend that his Msc project is related with the development
>> over a PCI-X card. the problem is that he do not know if the Linux
>> kernel support the PCI-X bus. i try to find something related with the
>> PCI-X in the kernel source but i didn't found any file or folder with a
>> relevant name... Does any one know if PCI-X bus supported from Linux and
>> if no how can he patch the kernel to support it...?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>
>
> Sure PCI-X is just PCI/66 with 64-bits. It's just like PCI/66
> from a software standpoint.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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so this practically means that hi will plug the card in, install Linux 
and the card will work correctly? because normal PCI i think that is 
32-bit... does the same driver will provide full support?