Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: : 1. When the card is physically removed inform the driver that it : should shut down and don't try to get to the card afterwards. That means : it would handle some subset of configuration requests and delay or : throw away any data transfer req

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : 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" Yes. Given cardbus support, these are easy. We don't have cardbus suppor

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : Warner Losh has just started to look into support for CPCI, which would : mandate hot-swap and bus reprobing. The CardBus support is similar in : concept, too. Yes. Cardbus is indeed quite similar. That's one reason I like the CPCI stuff we h

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Nelson writes: : In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from "Alfred Perlstein" on :Wed Jun 7 11:41:59 GMT 2000 : X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT : : In the last episode (Jun 07), Alfred Perlstein said: : > Brech, Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000607 10:33] wrote: : > > Luce

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-08 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wes Peters wrote: > > 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, t

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-08 Thread David J. Clark
With all the talk about adding support for hot plugging items into the system. Would it make sense to utilize Apple's work with IOKit in FreeBSD ? I know that this could be a BIG project- but why reproduce what apple is giving away ? It looks to be a really nice driver architecture. Would the AP

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-08 Thread 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

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
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

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Coleman Kane
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 audacit

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Wes Peters
Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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 netwo

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from "Alfred Perlstein" on Wed Jun 7 11:41:59 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT 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.