From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 17: 9:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B825537B959; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (ip110.salt-lake-city9.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.31.167.110]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06648; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:09:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <394035B6.2CA42384@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:09:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Coleman Kane , "Brech, Cary" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mblott@lucent.com, "Savio, Florie N" , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs References: <200006080227.TAA04108@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message