Re: Hot PCI bus plugging

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:38:32 -0500


> Reading this thread with much interest I just have to think how much
> effort it is a least to get a minimal hot swapping support up and
> running.

Looks like noone brought up the subject of resource allocation, so I will.
I don't know much about the bios and PCI as far as this goes, but doesn't
the bios assign io/mem/irq at boot up? How would this work on hot plug pci?
Who or what assigns the resources?

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