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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
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
10AUTHORS (so far)
11
12Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd.
13 Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs
14
15Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp.
16 Debugging SCSI and Block OSM
17
18Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp.
19 Various core/block extensions
20 /proc interface, bug fixes
21 Ioctl interfaces for control
22 Debugging LAN OSM
23
24Philip Rumpf
25 Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs
26
27Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland
28 LAN OSM code
29 /proc interface to LAN class
30 Bug fixes
31 Core code extensions
32
Jan Engelhardt96de0e22007-10-19 23:21:04 +020033Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070034 LAN OSM code
35 /Proc interface to LAN class
36 Bug fixes
37 Core code extensions
38
Jan Engelhardt96de0e22007-10-19 23:21:04 +020039Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040 Fixes to i2o_config
41
42CREDITS
43
44 This work was made possible by
45
46Red Hat Software
47 Funding for the Building #3 part of the project
48
49Symbios Logic (Now LSI)
50 Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit
51 compatibility problems
52
53BoxHill Corporation
54 Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work.
55
56European Comission
57 Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki
58
59SysKonnect
60 Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards
61
62ASUSTeK
63 Loan of I2O motherboard
64
65STATUS:
66
67o The core setup works within limits.
68o The scsi layer seems to almost work.
69 I'm still chasing down the hang bug.
70o The block OSM is mostly functional
71o LAN OSM works with FDDI and Ethernet cards.
72
73TO DO:
74
75General:
76o Provide hidden address space if asked
77o Long term message flow control
78o PCI IOP's without interrupts are not supported yet
79o Push FAIL handling into the core
80o DDM control interfaces for module load etc
81o Add I2O 2.0 support (Deffered to 2.5 kernel)
82
83Block:
84o Multiple major numbers
85o Read ahead and cache handling stuff. Talk to Ingo and people
86o Power management
87o Finish Media changers
88
89SCSI:
90o Find the right way to associate drives/luns/busses
91
92Lan:
93o Performance tuning
94o Test Fibre Channel code
95
96Tape:
97o Anyone seen anything implementing this ?
98 (D.S: Will attempt to do so if spare cycles permit)