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Do you run PCI over the internet to test boards remotely?

• londons_explore 2y ago
  No, but thats a bit of a pain. If it could run over the internet, I'd be able to use standard tooling (eg. wireshark to see what messages are being sent to debug my driver). I'd be able to connect to a PCI card on another machine remotely and have it 'just work', albeit with poor performance. There's a lot you lose by inventing your own protocol, and you lose even more if your protocol can't be tunnelled over IP.
  • ethbr1 2y ago
    That's what engineering is though: losing things you care less about in exchange for gaining things you care more about. Your point about being able to reach the Internet probably isn't as important of a design goal as some latency ceiling within their cluster.