Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> 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).
Warner Losh has just started to look into support for CPCI, which would
mandate hot-swap and bus reprobing. The CardBus support is similar in
concept, too.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
