The following steps help you avoid misconfiguring the PCIe endpoint assignments. For platform-specific information about installing and removing specific hardware, see the documentation for your platform.
No action is required if you are installing a PCIe card into an empty slot. This PCIe card is automatically owned by the domain that owns the PCIe bus.
To assign the new PCIe card to an I/O domain, use the ldm remove-io command to first remove the card from the root domain. Then, use the ldm add-io command to assign the card to an I/O domain.
No action is required if a PCIe card is removed from the system and assigned to the root domain.
To remove a PCIe card that is assigned to an I/O domain, first remove the device from the I/O domain. Then, add the device to the root domain before you physically remove the device from the system.
To replace a PCIe card that is assigned to an I/O domain, verify that the new card is supported by the DIO feature.
If so, no action is required to automatically assign the new card to the current I/O domain.
If not, first remove that PCIe card from the I/O domain by using the ldm remove-io command. Next, use the ldm add-io command to reassign that PCIe card to the root domain. Then, physically replace the PCIe card you assigned to the root domain with a different PCIe card. These steps enable you to avoid a configuration that is unsupported by the DIO feature.