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SubjectRe: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel
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)

[...]

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

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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