Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:30:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, "Brech, Cary" <CBrech@kenan.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mblott@lucent.com, "Savio, Florie N" <fsavio@lucent.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs Message-ID: <200006141630.KAA22010@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:27:35 PDT." <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com>
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In message <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : Actually, there's still a *lot* of work that has to be done to make this : work "right" - let me say two things only: : : "resource allocation" : : "interrupt routing" Yes. Given cardbus support, these are easy. We don't have cardbus support yet, so these will be quite hard. You have to cooperate with the pci bios to do either of these in a MI way. And the pci bios might not exist on all platforms, iirc. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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