RE: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?

From: Ted Mittelstaedt (tedm_at_toybox.placo.com)
Date: 11/24/05

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    To: "Hans Nieser" <hans@nieser.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:31:07 -0800

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Hans Nieser [mailto:hans@nieser.net]
    >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:48 AM
    >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    >Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?
    >
    >
    >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
    >> This is correct. The various driver authors who have been
    >> affected by the PCI Express issue have implemented logic in
    >> their probe code that activates the devices on pci express busses,
    >> so for most devices it's a non-issue. But this is kludgy and
    >> there's been discussion in the core as to try to get someone
    >> to write a PCI Express driver that would talk to the bus
    >> and would handle the devices the way the buss is intended.
    >>
    >> You still get weirdness though - for example on several Intel
    >> motherboards that have PCI Express that I've run FBSD on,
    >> the BSD kernel complains about no interrupt being available
    >> for the serial port. But the serial port works anyway.
    >>
    >> I'm surprised you didn't find this with Google, it's in
    >> there. Perhaps look through the mailing list archives?
    >>
    >> As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers
    >> for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are
    >> binaries from Nvidia. This for me would cross that card
    >> off my list.
    >>
    >> In any case, this really isn't a FreeBSD issue, it's an Xorg
    >> issue and you should ask on those mailing lists. Others have
    >> had Nvidia troubles for other reasons and should be able to
    >> better advise you.
    >
    >Many thanks for your clarification Ted. I did post to
    >freebsd-x11 but the
    >list seems relatively low-traffic and unfortunately got no responses.

    I was meaning post to the xorg@lists.freedesktop.org list.

    Ted
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