From: Tim Wright <timw@splhi.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplugging with regular PCI cards
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:16:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98154836227489@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98152611114112@msgid-missing>
Hi Adam,
I saw the same demo. It's not the machine as such that's interesting.
The hotplug is achieved because of the chipset support. In fact the Compaq
chipset that supports hotplug PCI is used in quite a few of the IBM Netfinity
machines, and, I'm sure, many other servers. I'm going to be testing their
code on the Netfinities that I have access to shortly, but see no reason to
believe that it shouldn't work. In fact it would be good if anybody with
machines using the Compaq hotplug PCI chips would test the code.
As you mention, there is driver work needed, both the change you mention
and to make sure that all the drivers are using the newer 2.4 PCI
infrastructure in the first place (the hotplug support relies on this).
Regards,
Tim
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:08:06PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I saw an interesting demonstration at LinuxWorld last week.
> Compaq had a machine that did hot plugging with regular PCI cards (not
> Compact PCI). If anyone out there is familiar with this machine,
> I would be interested in knowing what the status is on getting
> the support for that backplain integrated into the stock kernels.
>
> When that occurs, that will be yet another reason to treat all
> new style PCI drivers as potentially hot pluggable, even if those cards
> are not currently available in a CardBus or CompactPCI form, and in
> particular to change all of the xxx_pci_tbl declarations in PCI
> drivers that are currently marked as __initdata back to __devinitdata.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-07 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-07 6:08 hotplugging with regular PCI cards Adam J. Richter
2001-02-07 12:16 ` Tim Wright [this message]
2001-02-07 22:33 ` Jamey Hicks
2001-02-08 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
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