-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:59:24PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote: > From: Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> > > 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 ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCwuS4pdyWzQ5b5ckRAjSTAJ9hXlQ3kT4JAjSkkn/4QmYrKTFfcwCgkcPv hsj3g/oh3Fy68DZmGXCygAI= =y7II -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----