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Subject: Re: Ease of hardware configuration
To: landley@trommello.org
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:19:30 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <0110292127070I.05062@localhost.localdomain> from "Rob Landley" at Oct 29, 2001 10:27:07 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 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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