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Heads Up: PCI Express Hotplug Feature now in Solaris
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:19:37 -0800
From: Arvind Kini <Arvind dot Kini at sun dot com>
To: on-all at eng dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads Up: PCI Express Hotplug Feature now in Solaris
The recent putback of
6379464 Integrate PSARC/2005/375 for SPARC PCI Express Hotplug Support
provides support for PCI Express (PCIe) Hotplug in Solaris on
sun4u platforms. Please check your platform docs to see if your
platform supports hotplug.
NOTE: Owing to the lack of EFCode interpreter framework support, the
the hotplug functionality will not be available on sun4v platform
even though the hotplug software stack is identical for both
sun4u and sun4v platforms.
An RFE has been filed to track the progress of the sun4v
efcode interpreter.
6392059 Add sun4v support to the Embedded FCode Interpreter
This putback also integrates the RFE
5049969 Make efcode' PCI configurator as the default configurator
for SPARC platforms
and thus removes the original PCI Configurator module (pcicfg)
which didn't have the Efcode support. All the platforms by default
will now use the new EFCode framework enabled configurator (pcicfg.e).
The administrative model for PCIe hotplug remains the same as PCI,
as documented in cfgadm_pci(1M).
Bugs on generic PCIe hotplug functionality may be filed with
product : pci
category: pcie-sw
subcat : pciehp
Technical questions may be posted to: pci-hotplug-team at sun dot com
Documentation links available off http://dtsw.sfbay.sun.com/pciehp/.
--Arvind
NRSE IO
SSG
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