How to hotplug pci/e devices in freeBSD? (Or How to remove and rescan/re-enumerate pci device?)

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, April 02, 2015 10:17:47 AM Eran Harpaz wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to refresh/re-enumerate the pci device list.
> 
> In Linux, you can remove a particular pci device, and then after preforming
> a "rescan" the device will appear again. In Linux it is done by:
> 
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
> 
> I'm looking for a similar functionality in freeBSD.
> 
> *What do I want to achieve?*
> 
> I'm using freeBSD and my pcie device can be reset from the host. But when
> it boots again, it's uncommunicative, so I want to rescan the pci devices
> in order to initiate a new connection between the host and the device.
> 
> Any idea would be appreciated, even if it takes some coding effort.

This is not currently supported.  Hotplug support is being worked on by
jmg at .  However, if you want to rescan a non-hotplug device (e.g. flashing
an FPGA board), then I can probably add extensions to devctl in HEAD to
let you do this.

-- 
John Baldwin