Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

[Wes Peters]

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
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