From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 19:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown2-3-111.adsl.one.net [216.23.16.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187D937BB93; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA14300; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:24:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:24:46 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: "Brech, Cary" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mblott@lucent.com, "Savio, Florie N" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs Message-ID: <20000607222446.C14205@cokane.yi.org> References: <20000607170719.A24836@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000607170719.A24836@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:10:44PM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is rather interesting, it probably would have to do with PCI BIOS support as well, I suppose, but other than that, as long as you could safely unload and reload the pci code without depending upon it... it may work, or maybe set up a hook into the driver to rescan. Dan Nelson had the audacity to say: > In the last episode (Jun 07), Alfred Perlstein said: > > Brech, Cary [000607 10:33] wrote: > > > Lucent recently introduced a product that uses FreeBSD as its OS. > > > We are currently contemplating adding the ability to "Hot Swap" the > > > custom network interface cards we are developing for the next > > > release. The question we have is does FreeBSD support the ability > > > to hot swap network interface cards? > > > > > > Thanks in advance for your assistance! > > > > We can do pcmcia hot swap, but it gets hairy if the interface is > > in use, the interface should be 'downed' before removing afaik. > > Or do you mean PCI hot-plug? FreeBSD currently doesn't support > powering off PCI slots or re-probing the PCI bus after bootup, both of > which are required for hot-plug. I don't know how hard it would be to > add, either. You'll probably have to ask -hackers about that (cc and > reply-to reset there). > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message