| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | Linux I2O Support (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software |
| 3 | and others. |
| 4 | |
| 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. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | AUTHORS (so far) |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd. |
| 13 | Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs |
| 14 | |
| 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 |
| 43 | |
| 44 | This work was made possible by |
| 45 | |
| 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. |
| 55 | |
| 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: |
| 74 | |
| 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 |
| 88 | |
| 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) |