Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:34:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotswapping devices Message-ID: <19991203123454.A29018@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no>; from hanche@math.ntnu.no on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:08:32PM %2B0100 References: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
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On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:08:32PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > The frequent reboots needed whenever you do the most innocent change > to a windoze machine has always given us u**x users some good > opportunities to look down our noses at the poor windoze users. > Hence, it is with considerable pain that I note one situation which > windoze handles without rebooting, while FreeBSD cannot: > > On my Dell Inspiron 3500 (but surely, the same goes for many other > laptops as well), I can swap floppy drives, CD-ROM players, and Zip > drives in the media bay without shutting windoze down. I just go to a > control panel, click a button, swap media, click a button again, and > keep right on working. > > I wonder what it would take to make this sort of thing possible in the > BSD world? The answer I want to hear, of course (but don't really > expect), is that it already is possible, but that I just don't know it. The required feature is ACPI support. This will enable a number of things including hot docking and hot swap support. There is a project underway in Japan (http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/acpi/). The last post I saw mentioning when it would be integrated mentioned that it would be added to -current after -current becomes 5.0 with some possiability of a backport to 4.x-STABLE. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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