Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:38:07 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: devon.odell@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, livefreebsd@mac.com Subject: Re: cPCI Hotplug support Message-ID: <20060419.223807.69987349.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <9ab217670604191527r1c8e1326nf121b8b4d7d25adc@mail.gmail.com> References: <F8B081A0-0288-4203-ADCD-DD304561FFB6@mac.com> <4621CB9B-0ECC-48D2-93ED-E7480255C20C@siliconlandmark.com> <9ab217670604191527r1c8e1326nf121b8b4d7d25adc@mail.gmail.com>
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"Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> writes:
: 2006/4/19, Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>:
: > - What model laptop is this being used in?
:
: Note that compact-pci is different than mini-pci. Compact PCI is used
: very heavily in telecom blade applications and has some extensions for
: e.g. hot swapping. I'm not sure that FreeBSD supports this.
FreeBSD works great on Compact PCI cards, except for hot swapping. At
least that's been my experience with the Compact PCI form-factor
computer and card-cage we had at work for a while...
The problem is most likely specific to that particular card.
Warner
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