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SubjectRe: RFC: PCI hotplug resource reservation
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> scottm@somanetworks.com said:
> > you have any objection to this boot time reservation stuff going in
> > for now as a cPCI only thing? I can imagine other solutions that use
> > DMI scans or the like to detect cPCI master cards and grab chunks of
> > the resource space(s) for the hotswap buses, but don't have any clever
> > ideas on reliable heuristics for knowing how big those chunks should
> > be for a given card.
>
> No objections. I can't see any 'proper' fix other than adding the ability
> to relocate live cards. And I don't reckon that's going to happen.

Cool, thanks.

Scott


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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com


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