From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 10: 2:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CF137C335 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26658; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006141706.KAA26658@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:30:57 MDT." <200006141630.KAA22010@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:06:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : Actually, there's still a *lot* of work that has to be done to make this > : work "right" - let me say two things only: > : > : "resource allocation" > : > : "interrupt routing" > > Yes. Given cardbus support, these are easy. We don't have cardbus > support yet, so these will be quite hard. You have to cooperate with > the pci bios to do either of these in a MI way. And the pci bios > might not exist on all platforms, iirc. It's fairly hard for it not to; even the nasty old Ziatech CPCI SBC that Jerry Hicks lent me has a PCI BIOS. The real question is simply whether you can make enough sense out of the interrupt routing information to do what you want to do; nothing else scares me as much as that does. 8/ -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message