Re: Hot PCI bus plugging
ak@ebox.de
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:59:09 +0100
* 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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