You can hotswap PCI cards that follow the CompactPCI specification. This
has been in the kernel for years, and I think was originally authored by
Compaq.
Jon
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote:
> At 14:41 18.06.2003, Shridhar Daithankar said:
> --------------------[snip]--------------------
> >
> >Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? As in swappng CPU/RAM/Add on cards on
> >the fly?
> >
> >That is news to me. Could you point me to more resources on this?
> --------------------[snip]--------------------
>
> AFAIK swappable hardware needs to be supported by the hardware as well.
> Currently hard disks and power supplies can be hot-swapped, I never heard
> of the possibility to hot-swap directly on the data bus (memory, CPU, slot
> cards).
>
> As for SCSI disks and Power supplies, Linux supports hot swap. Check out
> Dell servers for example.
>
>
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