Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/dev/pci
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/31/2002 18:00:32
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:30:21PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
>  > Ahh.. That makes more sense. Can we tell if a bridge is a hot-plug one? If
>  > so, we could reserve it a certain number of busses for plugged-in cards,
>  > and then just continue.
> 
> Not really -- the hot-plug'ness isn't standardized, and many such busses
> just use normal PPBs in combination with other stuff.

Perhaps we could require a kernel option for provisions to be made for
hot plug? As it stands right now, we don't really have much support
for hot plug pci anyway...

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