Re: PCIe and Linux kernel
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:34 -0400, Colin wrote:
> Matt Barry wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:51 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote:
> >
> >>I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600
> >>in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 "530", 512MB, 80GB
> >>SATA drive etc etc..
> >
> >
> > I had a similar experience when I got my shiny new Asus X800 XT.. ATI's
> > official drivers (proprietary) do not yet support their PCIE products;
> > neither does XFree86 (as far as I was able to tell).
>
> Does the linux kernel support PCI Express well (in general)?
>
There certainly isn't a huge array of products (or people who own them)
yet, but it doesn't seem much support is really necessary. Based on
what I've read of the PCIE architecture, the interface is compatible.
The kernel does have support for using the MMCONFIG access mode, as of
2.6.5 IIRC. I imagine the big difference will be in making 3d drivers
work...
All I can really say is that I haven't had any problems yet...
performance is great, no crashes/quirks that I've noticed..
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