I used to design PCI-Express hardware that required full hot-plug support in hardware and software, and it certainly is possible, but it's quite involved ...
A system's BIOS (or firmware) and the host operating system need to treat an PCIe slot as having hot-swap capability. This behavior is taken for granted on ...
hot-plug starts with mainline kernel 3.10 with additional corner-case hot-plug fixes in 3.14. Intel NVMe drivers for Windows* continue to support hot-plug as they have since the initial release. Current version of the NVMe WHITE PAPER Hot-Plug Capability of NVMe™ SSDs in Server Platforms Intel® SSD Data Center Family for PCIe®
The MAX5954 hot-plug controller is designed for PCI Express® applications. The device provides hot-plug control for 12V, 3.3V, and 3.3V auxiliary supplies of a …
You can use the hotplug command to manage hot pluggible connections, where a connection can be a connector or port, on PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI SHPC devices ...
Hot-plug device driver. PCIe Hot-plug is designed as a "no-unexpected" or "graceful" methodology, i.e., the user is not permitted to install or remove a PCIe endpoint device without first notifying the system software. There is no standard for PCIe Hot-swap; it is system-dependant and usually implemented by the system vendor.
02.07.2007 · As such, hot-plug registers are part of PCIe's capabilities, providing the operating system with a standard hot-plug hardware register interface accessible through configuration access on the PCIe...
Procedure · Locate the slot for the card you want to work with. To locate the slot, read the function_id attribute of the PCIe device from sysfs. · Write the ...
31.12.2015 · Here is the PCIe v3.0 Base Spec, page 514, section 6.7 on Hot Plug support. An example of a PCIe card which does support hot-plug can be seen here, courtesy of iocrest. It can be clearly seen that the shorter connector trace is routed: However on this Axxon card, the shorter trace can clearly be seen routed to the adjacent one.