Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:59:09 +0100 | From | ak@ebox ... | Subject | Re: Hot PCI bus plugging |
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* Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com) [991122 17:45]: > > ak@ebox.de said: > > You may wonder, why somebody would want such a feature, because it's > > really not a very good idea to insert a PCI card into a running > > desktop system. > > You can also buy bus extenders for ISA and PCI that have power switches. > This allows for example testing a batch of boards without rebooting the > host computer.
Don't know how much PCI hardware development, exspecially free, is done under Linux. But I think it would be much more easy, if the kernel would support hot swapping.
Alex
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