AVGT development board PCIe and SFP pin assignment

I'm not sure. I'd recommend filing a Service Request with Altera directly and asking them to clarify.

The error message indicates that the SFP transceiver is in conflict with the PCIe ... but that would be a pretty annoying design error, so hopefully its just an incorrect tool setting.

What you could do is try to create a PCIe design with a x1 lane instead of the x4 or x8 lanes that their example design uses and see if the error is resolved. Hopefully the SFP channel is in the bank with the MSBs of the PCIe and this work-around will work; actually, the error message indicates that the conflict is with HIP bit 3, so a x1 design might still be in conflict ... You'll just have to try it and see. If this works, you will reduce your PCIe bandwidth, but hopefully that is ok (its better than no PCIe at all!).

Cheers,

Dave