Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:09:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> 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: <394035B6.2CA42384@softweyr.com> References: <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> 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"
And that's just the start. When it comes to network interfaces, trying
to unthread them from the system in a small, fixed amount of time like
will be required for hot-eject on CPCI, CardBus, etc., is really fugly.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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