PCI Express

[Roger Oberholtzer]

First there was PCI. There was rejoicing. Then there was PCI-X. The
rejoicing was faster. Now there is PCI Express. The rejoicing has
pictures.

Seriously. It is the latest 'PCI'. I put that in quotes because it is
quite a step past PCI.

Check out http://www.pcisig.com/home

I am looking because it may address bottlenecks we are expecting to have
with a large scale video capture system we are putting together.


On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 14:19, Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm honestly not even sure what a PCI Express is.
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > Bad NE here, but should I take no replies to mean that no one here uses
> > PCI express, or no one has any problems with it, or..
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:31, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Anyone here have any experience / opinion (!) about PCI Express and
> > > Linux? We are specing a 4 channel full rate image capture system and
> > > this is something to consider. Either one of these critters or a number
> > > of separate PCs. The separate ones are, of course, more tested. But I
> > > wonder how far off PCI Express is from stable happy use...
> > >
> > >
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? Roger Oberholtzer          ?   E-mail: roger at opq.se        ?
? OPQ Systems AB             ?      WWW: http://www.opq.se/  ?
? Nybrogatan 66 nb           ?    Phone: Int + 46 8   314223 ?
? 114 41 Stockholm           ?   Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 ?
? Sweden                     ?      Fax: Int + 46 8   314223 ?
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