Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:02:18 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot Swapping bay on a Thinkpad 770E Message-ID: <199912311502.IAA28027@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199912310630.WAA00600@mass.cdrom.com> References: <199912310024.RAA26498@mt.sri.com> <199912310630.WAA00600@mass.cdrom.com>
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>>> 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-mobile" in the body of the message
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