Subject: Re: hot swap support for PCI in NetBSD
To: jim a sullivan <jims@world.std.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/09/1997 09:52:17
On Fri, 9 May 1997 09:16:03 -0400 (EDT) 
 jim a sullivan <jims@world.std.com> wrote:

 > Has anybody looked into the software issues for supporting
 > hot swap of devices on the PCI bus in NetBSD ?

...the autoconfiguration framework would need the same sort of changes
as it would for pcmcia ... this has yet to be address, although some
folks have been thinking about it... for it to really work properly,
you really need kernel threads.

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