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To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: Hot Swapping bay on a Thinkpad 770E 
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:34:10 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199912310024.RAA26498@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes:
: 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.

Yes, we also need to get the hot-swap PnP events (and I think ACPI in
modern systems) to do this properly.  The new ata driver also needs
work for devices that go away suddenly as well, which may fall out
from the pccard stuff.  The floppy driver may also need work.  I have
most of the fdc port to pccard, but haven't had time to finish it up.

Warner


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