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2 Linux I2O Support (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
3 and others.
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5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
7 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
8 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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10 AUTHORS (so far)
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12 Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd.
13 Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs
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15 Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp.
16 Debugging SCSI and Block OSM
17
18 Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp.
19 Various core/block extensions
20 /proc interface, bug fixes
21 Ioctl interfaces for control
22 Debugging LAN OSM
23
24 Philip Rumpf
25 Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs
26
27 Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland
28 LAN OSM code
29 /proc interface to LAN class
30 Bug fixes
31 Core code extensions
32
33 Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland
34 LAN OSM code
35 /Proc interface to LAN class
36 Bug fixes
37 Core code extensions
38
39 Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland
40 Fixes to i2o_config
41
42 CREDITS
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44 This work was made possible by
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46 Red Hat Software
47 Funding for the Building #3 part of the project
48
49 Symbios Logic (Now LSI)
50 Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit
51 compatibility problems
52
53 BoxHill Corporation
54 Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work.
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56 European Comission
57 Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki
58
59 SysKonnect
60 Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards
61
62 ASUSTeK
63 Loan of I2O motherboard
64
65 STATUS:
66
67 o The core setup works within limits.
68 o The scsi layer seems to almost work.
69 I'm still chasing down the hang bug.
70 o The block OSM is mostly functional
71 o LAN OSM works with FDDI and Ethernet cards.
72
73 TO DO:
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75 General:
76 o Provide hidden address space if asked
77 o Long term message flow control
78 o PCI IOP's without interrupts are not supported yet
79 o Push FAIL handling into the core
80 o DDM control interfaces for module load etc
81 o Add I2O 2.0 support (Deffered to 2.5 kernel)
82
83 Block:
84 o Multiple major numbers
85 o Read ahead and cache handling stuff. Talk to Ingo and people
86 o Power management
87 o Finish Media changers
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89 SCSI:
90 o Find the right way to associate drives/luns/busses
91
92 Lan:
93 o Performance tuning
94 o Test Fibre Channel code
95
96 Tape:
97 o Anyone seen anything implementing this ?
98 (D.S: Will attempt to do so if spare cycles permit)
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