Re: Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? [was Re:

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?

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