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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:03:28 +0930
From:      "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is this expected to work? Really? (test of abstraction levels).
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> On 26 Aug 2020, at 14:49, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> wrote:
> So... here's the product:
>=20
> =
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/PCI-Express-PCI-e-to-PCI-Adapter-Card-PCIe-to-Dual=
-PCI-Expansion-Card-USB-3-0/383647797022?hash=3Ditem595330cf1e:g:O~kAAOSw0=
kxfGdIM
>=20
> For those who don't want to click, we have PCIe 1x -->> usb3.0 -->> =
PCI
> 32bit/66.

FYI that isn't really USB 3, it's just using USB 3 cabling to transport =
the PCIe.

You can think of it as a PCIe to PCI bridge with some long wires in it.

> Is that likely to work?  Is our abstraction of busses that powerful?  =
If I
> plug, say, a PCI I/O controller with a floppy on it ... would that be
> detected?

I am not sure it would work but there is a non-zero chance :)

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum





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