From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 7: 2:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407DD15481; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:02:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA25569; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:02:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA28027; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:02:18 -0700 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:02:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199912311502.IAA28027@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), William Woods , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot Swapping bay on a Thinkpad 770E In-Reply-To: <199912310630.WAA00600@mass.cdrom.com> References: <199912310024.RAA26498@mt.sri.com> <199912310630.WAA00600@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> Has anyone got the hot swap bay to work on a Thinkpad 770E? I would >>> love to "suspend" and swap CD and Floppy instead or power off, swap, >>> power on every time.... >> >> It ain't gonna happen anytime soon, since FreeBSD is not (yet) ready for >> swapping hardware. Warner is getting closer with his pccard work, which >> should pave the way for more drivers to be loadable/unloadable. > > Actually, Warner's pccard work has little or nothing to do with this > particular case. Agreed in this particular case, but he's moving more of FreeBSD towards a dynamic model, which should help overall. Nate > Making 'hot plug' of these devices (hot swap is almost certainly not > feasible) work will require proper newbus-ification of the ata and fd > drivers, and some hooks to detect their departure/arrival. These are > probably worth doing for docking station support as welll. And this will happen as part of the PCCARD re-write. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message