Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:44:43 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, grehan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci pci.c Message-ID: <200802040944.43812.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <18342.42877.245961.707684@gromit.timing.com> References: <200802012031.m11KV9NZ095246@repoman.freebsd.org> <47A3DCC1.2030700@freebsd.org> <18342.42877.245961.707684@gromit.timing.com>
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On Monday 04 February 2008 12:49:49 am John E Hein wrote: > Peter Grehan wrote at 19:00 -0800 on Feb 1, 2008: > > > I'm sure there are fun, interesting, and highly obtuse ways to get a > > > PCI-E device onto a system with no PCI-E root complex. > > > > Be afraid ... > > > > http://www.pericom.com/products/pci/ > > > > "In ?reverse? mode, the PI7C9X110 is configured with the PCI port on > > the primary and the PCI Express port on the downstream side. The > > ?reverse? configuration will be mainly used to ?bridge? new PCI Express > > products to legacy PCI systems." > > PLX (plxtech.com) also has them. We can blacklist those bridges just like we blacklist the AMD HT8131 bridge which is broken. -- John Baldwin
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