PCI Express

Chuck Tuffli chuck_tuffli at agilent.com
Wed Aug 25 06:04:38 PDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:13:34AM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> -On [20040825 01:12], Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> >I'll go ahead and say the the 1.0A code booted just fine on a PCIe 
> >system without modifications. That being said I'd be interested in 
> >working on adding Express specific support including MSI.
> 
> We're up to date on the MSI stuff up to and including PCI v3.
> I still need to grab a copy of the PCIe specifications, but perhaps you know
> how significant different PCIe is from, say, PCI v3 in these aspects?

MSI is based on the 2.3 version of the PCI spec for express. Are there
any examples of drivers that use MSI? Where are the writes going: the
IOAPIC or the front side bus? Any pointers would be mucho mucho
appreciated.

I forgot to ask the original poster what they meant by supporting
PCIe. Is there some particular feature that you're looking for like
error reporting, ASPM, hot plug, QoS, etc?

-- 
Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies, Storage Area Networking





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