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							|  |  |  | 	Linux I2O Support	(c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 					and others. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	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. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | AUTHORS (so far) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Debugging SCSI and Block OSM | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Various core/block extensions | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	/proc interface, bug fixes | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Ioctl interfaces for control | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Debugging LAN OSM | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Philip Rumpf | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	LAN OSM code | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	/proc interface to LAN class | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Bug fixes | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Core code extensions | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | 	LAN OSM code | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	/Proc interface to LAN class | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Bug fixes | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Core code extensions | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | 	Fixes to i2o_config | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | CREDITS | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	This work was made possible by  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Red Hat Software | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Funding for the Building #3 part of the project | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Symbios Logic (Now LSI) | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	compatibility problems | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | BoxHill Corporation | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | European Commission | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | 	Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | SysKonnect | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |         Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ASUSTeK | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |         Loan of I2O motherboard  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | STATUS: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | o	The core setup works within limits. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	The scsi layer seems to almost work.  | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |            I'm still chasing down the hang bug. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	The block OSM is mostly functional | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	LAN OSM works with FDDI and Ethernet cards. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | TO DO: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | General: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 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 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o       Add I2O 2.0 support (Deffered to 2.5 kernel) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Block: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Multiple major numbers | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Read ahead and cache handling stuff. Talk to Ingo and people | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Power management | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Finish Media changers | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | SCSI: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Find the right way to associate drives/luns/busses | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Lan:	 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Performance tuning | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Test Fibre Channel code | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Tape: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | o	Anyone seen anything implementing this ? | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |            (D.S: Will attempt to do so if spare cycles permit) |