On 18 Jun 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 08:03, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > > Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? As in swappng CPU/RAM/Add on cards on
> > > the fly?
> >
> > No CPUs or RAM. The problem isn't the kernel, realy, it's x86 hardware.
> > The kernel guys aren't going to bother to try to support it until there's
> > hardware support.
> >
> > However for PCI cards, USB, Firewire, and SCSI devices, Linux has had
> > hotswap capability for a long while now.
>
> You mean that I can go into my white box PC and yank an unused PCI
> card from a "live" system, if it is running Linux?
I dunno, why don't you try and let us know how it works... :-)
No, you can't do it on a plain white box PC. But there IS A standard for
PCI to let you do this that Linux does support. Google for it. It's
something like CPCI or something.
