Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:06:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs Message-ID: <200006141706.KAA26658@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:30:57 MDT." <200006141630.KAA22010@harmony.village.org>
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> 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
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