README.md

Linux I2O Support (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
and others.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHORS (so far)

Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd.
Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs

Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp.
Debugging SCSI and Block OSM

Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp.
Various core/block extensions
/proc interface, bug fixes
Ioctl interfaces for control
Debugging LAN OSM

Philip Rumpf
Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs

Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland
LAN OSM code
/proc interface to LAN class
Bug fixes
Core code extensions

Auvo H�kkinen, University of Helsinki Finland
LAN OSM code
/Proc interface to LAN class
Bug fixes
Core code extensions

Taneli V�h�kangas, University of Helsinki Finland
Fixes to i2o_config

Boji T Kannanthanam
Intel i2o controller work, extending proc/config stuff

CREDITS

This work was made possible by

Red Hat Software
Funding for the Building #3 part of the project

Symbios Logic (Now LSI)
Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit
compatibility problems

BoxHill Corporation
Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work.

European Comission
Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki

SysKonnect
Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards

ASUSTeK
Loan of I2O motherboard

Promise
Providing a Supertrak 100 board and support info

DPT
Providing a DPT smartraid I2O card (use dpt_i2o for this
board however)

STATUS:
o Should be stable for x86 32bit

KNOWN ISSUES:
o Reports that intel boards die if you load i2o_block and i2o_scsi
o Some promise cards need firmware updates

TO DO:

General:
o Finish 64bit and big endian cleanup
o Switch to new PCI mapping layer throughout
o Hotswap of controllers
o Provide hidden address space if asked
o Long term message flow control
o PCI IOP's without interrupts are not supported yet
o Push FAIL handling into the core
o DDM control interfaces for module load etc

Block:
o Multiple major numbers (problem goes away in 2.5)
o Power management
o Finish Media changers

SCSI:

Lan:
o Performance tuning
o Test Fibre Channel code

Tape:
o Anyone seen anything implementing this ?