Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 11:23 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
>> I tried to add a link for PCI Express devices, but I don't have
>> permissions to reorganize the Wiki to have a separate table.
>
>> From the users' perspective, PCI and PCI Express are different busses
>> and should be listed separately.
>
> I'm not sure. The ID spaces are the same really, and users really don't
> distinguish that much, for them PCI-E is just the new PCI technology
> with a different form factor. Kinda like mini-pci vs. pci.
Speaking as a user, I do want to distinguish them: PCIe fits into a
physically different slot from PCI, so having only PCIe slots free, I
really did want to select by socket type. Similarly someone with a PCI
only motherboard would be looking for PCI and not PCIe.
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Jón Fairbairn [email protected]
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 16:43 +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
> Speaking as a user, I do want to distinguish them: PCIe fits into a
> physically different slot from PCI, so having only PCIe slots free, I
> really did want to select by socket type. Similarly someone with a PCI
> only motherboard would be looking for PCI and not PCIe.
Right, but that just means we should have a 'form factor' part of the
listing. I don't think a PCI-E listing would have helped you if it also
listed mini-pci-e or expresscard.
I think it would be smarter to group them all under PCI, but have a
form-factor there. While not exactly correct technically, it would be
easier to use.
johannes