Re: IDE todo list

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 16:07:26 EST


On 22 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> (Minus some stuff which is NDA'd because it involves unreleased chips
> etc)
>
> - Promise 20376
> - Audit Promise drivers
> - BIOS timing stuff
> - Simplex mode reassignment intelligence
> - IDE-SCSI crashes on 2.5
> - IDE-SCSI/reset race on 2.4/2.5
> - Forward port remaining drivers to 2.5
> - Add ATAPI virtual DMA
> - Add DMA active irq poll trick
> - Clock switching for Highpoint 372N
> - Support for SATA bridge on HPT
> - Intel ICH5 errata audit
> - Intel Centrino idents and errata audit [Merged for 2.5]
> - Explain rather than just fix the CMD680 mmio collision problem
> - Finish hotplug handling
> - Revert identify hacks now ide-default is present
> - Allow multiple driver binding for ide-cd/ide-scsi etc
> - Locking for unload driver
> - Locking for modular load onto a busy interface
> - ADMA full support
> - Mark Lord/Andre ideas on LBA28/LBA48
> - Finish verifying 256 sector I/O or larger on LBA48
> [How to handle change dynamically on hotplug ?]
> - Clean up ide_unregister paths
> - Finish ide pcmcia code hot unplug interface registers
> - Finish ide pcmcia unregister path retry logic
> - IRQ detect broken for some setups
> - Check full PCI clocking info on HPT37x
> - Rewrite HPT37x controller type logic
> - Debug TRM290
> - Fix up the hwif based sectors per transfer limit
> - How to handle generic class IDE devices by class only
> - Opti support for the 558 ?
> - Can we resolve NDA's with SiS ?
> - Audit ALi driver use of config register bits on bridge
> - Document the calling properties for each driver function
> - Work out how to fix up all the TCQ crashes
> - Does taskfile I/O now work after the bug fixes ?
> [do we care 8))]
> - Multiple taskfile load support for controllers that have it
> [big performance win]
> - IDE specification issue - mishandling error abort on ATA6
> - 20276 with i960 SX6000 mishandling
> - Investigate breakage in ide-floppy on 2.4
> - Merge new ACPI + relax into the -ac tree
> - Get Arjan's info on IDE violations in simulator

Erm, where is this simulator?

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

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