On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:19:41AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > * Don't use pcicfg space for other purposes than initial configuration.
> > Especially do not use it in _mode_setup() to distinguish device versions.
> > Use flags or a chipset_version field in the <meta>_t structure instead.
>
> Here is something to think about. It was recently discussed on the linux
> kernel mailing list. Their are now hot swappable pci cards. Yes you can
> plug in pci cards without rebooting the machine. I know Compaq now has
> such machines. It looks like a way to rescan the pci bus needs to be done.
> I don't know the details since I don't have the PCI specs from intel.
>
I assume this is a change both in Bus and Card, so existing PCI cards don't
have to cope with beeing ripped out and replugged do they?
If it's jusut for cards explicitly designed to do so, fine, but if it's for
anyone, we would need to check if we are still alive before each card
access? including framebuffer and accel engine that doesn't sound like much
fun...
Johan
