PCIe hotplug

[Warner Losh]

On Jul 20, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Is anyone looking at PCIe hotplug support?

I have :).  I did CardBus ages ago, but never have had the time, hardware and motivation all at the same time to make progress.

> I'm especially interested if anyone has a strategy for device re-insertion and reassociating
> the reinserted device with its old device_t so that it gets the same unit number..
> (assumes access to a serial number or similar)
> Even if it is put back into a different slot.

That's never been supported by removable technology on FreeBSD...

Warner