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PCIe real connection to devices

uditknit over 4 years ago

I have basic question regarding PCIe devices connections, This is being said, PCIe has 256 Buses, each bus can have 32 devices and each device can have 8 functions.

Since this is said, PCie is point to point connection, my question is how I can connect 5 physical devices over one PCIe bus

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vstehle over 4 years ago in reply to uditknit +1

The general case is the one you mentioned with a single Endpoint alone on its bus, as the whole point of PCIe was to move to point-to-point physical links. I can think of two specific cases with multiple...