in all likelihood, there's a crowbar switch that routes the connector to either PCI-e or USB HCD, and HCD is only brought up when…
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the cable identifies itself as an USB cable (vs a Thunderbolt one)
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I verified that plugging a provably passive USB-C to USB-A cable also results in a new XHCI HCD being detected so
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I'm slightly disappointed I'm right, because PCIe over mundane USB would be awesome …ly terrible for security, but
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it's impossible to meet PCI-e timing requirements
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IIRC PCIe has hard latency reqs, USB doesn't
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What about
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that wasn't just PCIe, it also meddled with SoC clock, IIRC
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No, PCIe is actually extremely lenient with timings once you get to the TLP layer. Easy to meet with USB.
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IIRC timeouts are configurable but they tend to be very permissive on most systems by default.
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This was connecting to a totally unmodified Atom board, not even a PS4.https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/551574124284612608 …
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