This is rather interesting, it probably would have to do with PCI BIOS support
as well, I suppose, but other than that, as long as you could safely unload and
reload the pci code without depending upon it... it may work, or maybe set up a
hook into the driver to rescan.
Dan Nelson had the audacity to say:
> 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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