2 Linux I2O Support (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
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12 Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd.
13 Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs
15 Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp.
16 Debugging SCSI and Block OSM
18 Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp.
19 Various core/block extensions
20 /proc interface, bug fixes
21 Ioctl interfaces for control
25 Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs
27 Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland
29 /proc interface to LAN class
33 Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland
35 /Proc interface to LAN class
39 Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland
44 This work was made possible by
47 Funding for the Building #3 part of the project
49 Symbios Logic (Now LSI)
50 Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit
51 compatibility problems
54 Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work.
57 Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki
60 Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards
63 Loan of I2O motherboard
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.
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)
84 o Multiple major numbers
85 o Read ahead and cache handling stuff. Talk to Ingo and people
87 o Finish Media changers
90 o Find the right way to associate drives/luns/busses
94 o Test Fibre Channel code
97 o Anyone seen anything implementing this ?
98 (D.S: Will attempt to do so if spare cycles permit)