Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Of course it is possible to modify the RCW to use another SerDes configuration.
Am I reading this right that the SerDes lanes are not fixed on the P5020DS board and can be re-assigned? So far I thought that a board designer had to decide for one of the available configurations and hardwire that one. Reconfigurability on a fabricated board would be even nicer, of course.
That part surprised me as well, but as this board is not a commercial product but rather a form that allows evaluation of the P5020, maybe they felt the need to include this option.
I was more surprised by the lack of an X4 configured PCIe slot in the default setup.
Running a PCIe video card at X2 would be possible but painful.
[ Edited by Jim on 2011/3/12 1:15 ]
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