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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:59:24PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Btw, don't quote me on this one :)
> > I'm only 90% sure of the hotswapping capabilities, and less than 50%
> > sure about the price :)
>
> There _are_ systems with hot-swap CPUs, memory and/or, PCI[-X] slots.
> They are _not_ commodity and pricey, and require OS-level support.
>
> In fact, I believe Linux 2.6 has some support for hot-swap -- at least
> at the PCI[-X] level, if not memory and possibly CPU as well. It
> requires extensive support though for that type of "dynamic" flexibility.
Memory hotswap ?
Sounds fishy to me, at least on IA32{,e} platforms. Are you sure about that ?
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