cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 13 17:33:11 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 01:47 pm, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > At the moment I don't know of anyone with an AMD64 PCI Express
> > > motherboard.
> >
> > The Celestica A8440 has dual onboard PCI-X NICs and two PCI-X slots.
> > Surely someone in the project should be able to get their hands on
> > one?  I for one would love to have one for the tinderbox...
> >
> > DES
> 
> Just for clarity, we were talking about PCI-Express, not PCI-X.
> 
> BTW, I think it is amusing that the only machines readily available that 
> have PCI-Express to run FreeBSD/amd64 on are Intel systems...

Why?
Today there is zero benefit to PCI-Express vs. AGP 8x or PCI-X 133mhz.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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