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"
> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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).
> >
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