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FromDavid Woodhouse <>
SubjectRe: RFC: PCI hotplug resource reservation
DateThu, 08 Aug 2002 20:44:49 +0100
scottm@somanetworks.com said:
>  you have any objection to this boot time reservation stuff going in
> for now as a cPCI only thing?  I can imagine other solutions that use
> DMI scans or the like to detect cPCI master cards and grab chunks of
> the resource space(s) for the hotswap buses, but don't have any clever
> ideas on reliable heuristics for knowing how big those chunks should
> be for a given card.

No objections. I can't see any 'proper' fix other than adding the ability 
to relocate live cards. And I don't reckon that's going to happen.

--
dwmw2


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