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Subject: Re: Status of PCIe Hotplug?
From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
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> On 27 Sep 2016, at 17:51, Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> To my knowledge, all the necessary PCIe-layer code is present.  =
However,
> that's just one layer:  Many drivers will likely need changes in order
> to cope with surprise removal of their devices.

Thank you very much, that=E2=80=99s what I needed to know :) I saw that =
the bits were
indeed present, but I was wondering wether I should expect it to work or =
not.

> For that reason, HotPlug needs a lot of testing on a variety of
> platforms.  The FreeBSD developer base is much smaller than its user
> base, of course, so the variety of our testing is rather limited.  You
> can help immensely by giving us detailed bug reports, either on a
> mailing list or in Bugzilla.  For a panic, the panic messages and =
stack
> trace of the current thread will be very helpful.  Complete =
crashinfo(8)
> output would be great.

Of course. Unfortunately, due to poor timing and a DOA server last =
month, this
server is in a countdown to get into production tomorrow running =
Solaris, but I=E2=80=99ll try
to get whatever I can today.

Thanks!





Borja.