From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 3 12:35:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D86B14C34 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03313; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:34:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:34:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotswapping devices Message-ID: <19991203123454.A29018@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no>; from hanche@math.ntnu.no on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:08:32PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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