Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

5448.1 - 5478.423 Robert Mustacchi

Yeah, so that's a great question. So what we think of this is, so there's a complex state machine in the PCI docs. So basically, a PCI device goes through to basically have a PCIe link come up. So when your operating system wants to go read or write from a register that ultimately gets transformed into a transaction on the PCIe bus, which is a point-to-point link between a port on the CPU