Re: Re: Strategy for PCI resource management (for supporting hot-plug)

John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:58:41 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.new-bus,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rajat Jain wrote this message on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:02 +0530:
> The only problem as you say is when we plug in a PCI card, which has a
> HOT-PLUGGABLE SLOT on it (on which we can plug in more cards). (This is
> because a bridge wants extra reserved resources only when it is hot-plug
> capable). Do such devices exist? Since theoretically possible, but
> practically extremely rare, I say we do not support this case.

There is an ExpressCard PCI-E expansion box (I have one) which you
could put a PCI-E cardbus adapter card in which would I believe be the
case that you are asking about...  Now how many people would do that?
Not many, but more might put in multiport PCI-E cards.

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