Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:08:25 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > > Hopefully, they (or we, should I count myself?) are not completely brain > > dead. Old method still works. > > Good. I just wanted to check from a timing perspective - it means that > this won't be an issue for most people for a while (ie until we start > seeing actual PCI-X-specific hardware and drivers rather than just the > support chipsets - and I obviously have no idea how long that will take)
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For the record: PCI Express is _not_ PCI-X.
PCI Express is a completely new bus system with new physical connectors. From a software point of view, it's (more or less) backwards-compatible with PCI, while PCI-X is completely backwards compatible with PCI.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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