In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from "Alfred Perlstein" on Wed
Jun 7 11:41:59 GMT 2000
X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
In the last episode (Jun 07), Alfred Perlstein said:
> Brech, Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000607 10:33] wrote:
> > Lucent recently introduced a product that uses FreeBSD as its OS.
> > We are currently contemplating adding the ability to "Hot Swap" the
> > custom network interface cards we are developing for the next
> > release. The question we have is does FreeBSD support the ability
> > to hot swap network interface cards?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your assistance!
>
> We can do pcmcia hot swap, but it gets hairy if the interface is
> in use, the interface should be 'downed' before removing afaik.
Or do you mean PCI hot-plug? FreeBSD currently doesn't support
powering off PCI slots or re-probing the PCI bus after bootup, both of
which are required for hot-plug. I don't know how hard it would be to
add, either. You'll probably have to ask -hackers about that (cc and
reply-to reset there).
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