From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: areversat@tuxfamily.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of pci express in kernel
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52u0x4u8fj.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087837920.9636.1.camel@nibbler> (areversat@tuxfamily.org's message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:12:00 +0200")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-21 17:28 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-21 17:12 Status of pci express in kernel areversat
2004-06-21 17:28 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-06-22 0:03 ` Greg KH
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