✧✦Catherine✦✧remember i bought a cheap Chinese motherboard with a Xeon included in the price?
i just ran lspci on it.
look at it. what is even going on
biblically accurate PCI bus
full text if you're curious https://paste.debian.net/hidden/a5c1fead
equinox@whitequark this is sadly normal, everything on bus ff: is Intel having engorged body parts for unnecessary PCI devices 
(To be fair, "look good" is not a criteria for PCI bus/interface design)
@equinox pretty sure it's a debug interface that's not meant to be exposed on motherboards shipped to customers
Andrew Zonenberg@whitequark @equinox this is one of my recent xeon workstations https://paste.debian.net/hidden/2b8d5ed8
doesnt look all that different?
@whitequark @azonenberg it's not like any of this exists as actual PCI bus or devices, they just have a "PCI-looking" configuration interface bus in the CPU and aren't afraid to use it…
In some cases you actually get drivers that work for the same component across multiple CPU generations, while other things around it change… in other cases [it feels like] they just threw shit at the wall and some stuck