Re: Ease of hardware configuration

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:19:30 +0000 (GMT)


> stuff. You can't hotplug PCI. (Well, you can, but not if you expect it to
> WORK. Or if you don't want to replace burned out pieces of hardware.)

You can hotplug PCI. It's called cardbus. There is also full hotplug PCI
in the -ac kernel tree for people with expensive motherboards. The kernel
handles a fair bit of it ok. Hotplugging the video console isnt a good
idea right now, and the disk drivers need work, but for basic stuff like
network cards it works out.

Alan
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