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To: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel
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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