PCI Express is a high-performance, general-purpose I/O Interconnect. It introduces AER (Advanced Error Reporting) concepts, which provide significantly higher reliability at a lower cost than the previous PCI and PCI-X standards. The AER driver of the Linux kernel provides a clean, generic, and architecture-independent solution. As long as a platform supports PCI Express, the AER driver shall gather and manage all occurred PCI Express errors and incorporate with PCI Express device drivers to perform error-recovery actions.

This paper is targeted toward kernel developers interested in the details of enabling PCI Express device drivers, and it provides insight into the scope of implementing the PCI Express AER driver and the AER conformation usage model.

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