From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262038AbTJJKvl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:51:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262040AbTJJKvl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:51:41 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:27321 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262038AbTJJKvj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:51:39 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:51:37 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Stuart Longland Cc: lgb@lgb.hu, Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts Message-Id: <20031010125137.4080a13b.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> References: <20031009115809.GE8370@vega.digitel2002.hu> <20031009165723.43ae9cb5.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:19:46 +1000 Stuart Longland wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > * hotplug CPU > > * hotplug RAM > > * hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-) > > Although sarcasm aside, a couple of ideas that have been bantered around > on this list (and a few of my own ideas): You are obviously not quite familiar with industrial boxes where this is state-of-the-art. My thinking is: * CPU hotplug: should not be too hard * RAM hotplug: has already been discussed in several threads, sure needs brain, but must be doable. Generally spoken every part of a computer should be thought of as a "resource" that can be added or removed at any time during runtime. CPU or RAM is in no way different. Regards, Stephan