RE: Hot PCI bus plugging

Jakma, Paul (Paul.Jakma@compaq.com)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:54:12 -0000

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> I don't think you can rescan the bus, but what you can do is
> hot-replace a
> card. ie If your nic breaks you could hot-swap it with an
> identical nic, and
> insert the driver again.
>
> incidentally, this is no more than what NT4 can do on Compaq hardware.
>

eek.. one little thing. card side PCI initialisitation.. might need a little
utility to poke it. But from the point of view of linux it'd be as if the
card was the same one.

> regards,
>
> -paul jakma.

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