Status of PCIe Hotplug?

[Borja Marcos]

> On 27 Sep 2016, at 17:51, Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> To my knowledge, all the necessary PCIe-layer code is present.  However,
> that's just one layer:  Many drivers will likely need changes in order
> to cope with surprise removal of their devices.

Thank you very much, that’s what I needed to know :) I saw that the bits were
indeed present, but I was wondering wether I should expect it to work or not.

> For that reason, HotPlug needs a lot of testing on a variety of
> platforms.  The FreeBSD developer base is much smaller than its user
> base, of course, so the variety of our testing is rather limited.  You
> can help immensely by giving us detailed bug reports, either on a
> mailing list or in Bugzilla.  For a panic, the panic messages and stack
> trace of the current thread will be very helpful.  Complete crashinfo(8)
> output would be great.

Of course. Unfortunately, due to poor timing and a DOA server last month, this
server is in a countdown to get into production tomorrow running Solaris, but I’ll try
to get whatever I can today.

Thanks!





Borja.