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diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3435227a2b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx @@ -0,0 +1,593 @@ +Sat May 12 12:00 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3c + - Ensure LEDC bit in GPCNTL is cleared when reading the NVRAM. + Fix sent by Stig Telfer <stig@api-networks.com>. + - Backport from SYM-2 the work-around that allows to support + hardwares that fail PCI parity checking. + - Check that we received at least 8 bytes of INQUIRY response + for byte 7, that contains device capabilities, to be valid. + - Define scsi_set_pci_device() as nil for kernel < 2.4.4. + - + A couple of minor changes. + +Sat Apr 7 19:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3b + - Fix an unaligned LOAD from scripts (was used as dummy read). + - In ncr_soft_reset(), only try to ABORT the current operation + for chips that support SRUN bit in ISTAT1 and if SCRIPTS are + currently running, as 896 and 1010 manuals suggest. + - In the CCB abort path, do not assume that the CCB is currently + queued to SCRIPTS. This is not always true, notably after a + QUEUE FULL status or when using untagged commands. + +Sun Mar 4 18:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3a + - Fix an issue in the ncr_int_udc() (unexpected disconnect) + handling. If the DSA didn't match a CCB, a bad write to + memory could happen. + +Mon Feb 12 22:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3 + - Support for hppa. + Tiny patch sent to me by Robert Hirst. + - Tiny patch for ia64 sent to me by Pamela Delaney. + +Tue Feb 6 13:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3-pre1 + - Call pci_enable_device() as AC wants this to be done. + - Get both the BAR cookies used by CPU and actual PCI BAR + values used from SCRIPTS. Recent PCI chips are able to + access themselves using internal cycles, but they compare + BAR values to destination address to make decision. + Earlier chips simply use PCI transactions to access IO + registers from SCRIPTS. + The bus_dvma_to_mem() interface that reverses the actual + PCI BAR value from the BAR cookie is now useless. + This point had been discussed at the list and the solution + got approved by PCI code maintainer (Martin Mares). + - Merge changes for linux-2.4 that declare the host template + in the driver object also when the driver is statically + linked with the kernel. + - Increase SCSI message size up to 12 bytes, given that 8 + bytes was not enough for the PPR message (fix). + - Add field 'maxoffs_st' (max offset for ST data transfers). + The C1010 supports offset 62 in DT mode but only 31 in + ST mode, to 2 different values for the max SCSI offset + are needed. Replace the obviously wrong masking of the + offset against 0x1f for ST mode by a lowering to + maxoffs_st of the SCSI offset in ST mode. + - Refine a work-around for the C1010-66. Revision 1 does + not requires extra cycles in DT DATA OUT phase. + - Add a missing endian-ization (abrt_tbl.addr). + - Minor clean-up in the np structure for fields accessed + from SCRIPTS that requires special alignments. + +Sun Sep 24 21:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.2 + - Remove the hack for PPC added in previous driver version. + - Add FE_DAC feature bit to distinguish between 64 bit PCI + addressing (FE_DAC) and 64 bit PCI interface (FE_64BIT). + - Get rid of the boot command line "ultra:" argument. + This parameter wasn't that clever since we can use "sync:" + for Ultra/Ultra2 settings, and for Ultra3 we may want to + pass PPR options (for now only DT clocking). + - Add FE_VARCLK feature bit that indicates that SCSI clock + frequency may vary depending on board design and thus, + the driver should try to evaluate the SCSI clock. + - Simplify the way the driver determine the SCSI clock: + ULTRA3 -> 160 MHz, ULTRA2 -> 80 MHz otherwise 40 MHz. + Measure the SCSI clock frequency if FE_VARCLK is set. + - Remove FE_CLK80 feature bit that got useless. + - Add support for the SYM53C875A (Pamela Delaney). + +Wed Jul 26 23:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.1 + - Provide OpenFirmware path through the proc FS on PPC. + - Download of on-chip SRAM using memcpy_toio() doesn't work + on PPC. Restore previous method (MEMORY MOVE from SCRIPTS). + - Remove trailing argument #2 from a couple of #undefs. + +Sun Jul 09 16:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.7.0 + - Remove the PROFILE C and SCRIPTS code. + This facility was not this useful and thus was not longer + desirable given the increasing complexity of the driver code. + - Merges from FreeBSD sym-1.6.2 driver: + * Clarify memory barriers needed by the driver for architectures + that implement a weak memory ordering. + * Simpler handling of illegal phases and data overrun from + SCRIPTS. These errors are now immediately reported to + the C code by an interrupt. + * Sync the residual handling code with sym-1.6.2 and now + report `resid' to user for linux version >= 2.3.99 + - General cleanup: + Move definitions for barriers and IO/MMIO operations to the + sym53c8xx_defs.h header files. They are now shared by the + both drivers. + Remove unused options that claimed to optimize for the 896. + If fact, they were not this clever. :) + Use SCSI_NCR_IOMAPPED instead of NCR_IOMAPPED. + Remove a couple of unused fields from data structures. + +Thu May 11 12:40 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-1.6b + - Merged version. + +Mon Apr 24 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5m + - Return value 1 (instead of 0) from the driver setup routine. + - Do not enable PCI DAC cycles. This just broke support for + SYM534C896 on sparc64. Problem fixed by David S. Miller. + +Fri Apr 14 9:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-1.6b-9 + - Added 53C1010_66 support. + - Small fix to integrity checking code. + - Removed requirement for integrity checking if want to run + at ultra 3. + +Sat Apr 1 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5l + - Tiny change for __sparc__ appeared in 2.3.99-pre4.1 that + applies to cache line size (? Probably from David S Miller). + - Make sure no data transfer will happen for Scsi_Cmnd requests + that supply SCSI_DATA_NONE direction (this avoids some BUG() + statement in the PCI code when a data buffer is also supplied). + +Sat Mar 11 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.6b-5 + - Test against expected data transfer direction from SCRIPTS. + - Add support for the new dynamic dma mapping kernel interface. + Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with pre-2.3.47-6). + Many thanks to David S. Miller for his preliminary changes + that have been useful guidelines. + - Get data transfer direction from the scsi command structure + (Scsi_Cmnd) with kernels that provide this information. + +Mon Mar 6 23:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5k + - Test against expected data transfer direction from SCRIPTS. + - Revert the change in 'ncr_flush_done_cmds()' but unmap the + scsi dma buffer prior to queueing the command to our done + list. + - Miscellaneous (minor) fixes in the code added in driver + version 1.5j. + +Mon Feb 14 4:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-pre-1.6b-2. + - Updated the SCRIPTS error handling of the SWIDE + condition - to remove any reads of the sbdl + register. Changes needed because the 896 and 1010 + chips will check parity in some special circumstances. + This will cause a parity error interrupt if not in + data phase. Changes based on those made in the + FreeBSD driver version 1.3.2. + +Sun Feb 20 11:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5j + - Add support for the new dynamic dma mapping kernel interface. + Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with pre-2.3.47-6). + Many thanks to David S. Miller for his preliminary changes + that have been useful guidelines, for having reviewed the + code and having tested this driver version on Ultra-Sparc. + - 2 tiny bugs fixed in the PCI wrapper that provides support + for early kernels without pci device structure. + - Get data transfer direction from the scsi command structure + (Scsi_Cmnd) with kernels that provide this information. + - Fix an old bug that only affected 896 rev. 1 when driver + profile support option was set in kernel configuration. + +Fri Jan 14 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-pre-1.6b-1. + - Merge parallel driver series 1.61 and 1.5e + +Tue Jan 11 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-1.61 + - Added support for mounting disks on wide-narrow-wide + scsi configurations. + - Modified offset to be a maximum of 31 in ST mode, + 62 in DT mode. + - Based off of 1.60 + +Mon Jan 10 10:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@lsil.com) + * version sym53c8xx-1.60 + - Added capability to use the integrity checking code + in the kernel (optional). + - Added PPR negotiation. + - Added support for 53C1010 Ultra 3 part. + - Based off of 1.5f + +Sat Jan 8 22:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5h + - Add year 2000 copyright. + - Display correctly bus signals when bus is detected wrong. + - Some fix for Sparc from DSM that went directly to kernel tree. + +Mon Dec 6 22:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5g + - Change messages written by the driver at initialisation and + through the /proc FS (rather cosmetic changes that consist in + printing out the PCI bus number and PCI device/function). + - Ensure the SCRIPTS processor is stopped while calibrating the + SCSI clock (the initialisation code has been a bit reworked). + Change moved to the FreeBSD sym_hipd driver). + - Some fixes in the MODIFY_DP/IGN_RESIDUE code and residual + calculation (moved from FreeBSD sym_hipd driver). + - Add NVRAM support for Tekram boards that use 24C16 EEPROM. + Code moved from the FreeBSD sym_hipd driver, since it has + been that one that got this feature first. + - Definitely disable overlapped PCI arbitration for all dual + function chips, since I cannot make sure for what chip revisions + it is actually safe. + - Add support for the SYM53C1510D (also for ncr53c8xx). + - Fix up properly the PCI latency timer when needed or asked for. + - Get rid of the old PCI bios interface, but preserve kernel 2.0 + compatibility from a simple wrapper. + - Update the poor Tekram sync factor table. + - Fix in a tiny 'printk' bug that may oops in case of extended + errors (unrecovered parity error, data overrun, etc ...) + (Sent by Pamela Delaney from LSILOGIC) + - Remove the compilation condition about having to acquire the + io_request_lock since it seems to be a definite feature now.:) + - Change get_pages by GetPages since Linux >= 2.3.27 now wants + get_pages to ever be used as a kernel symbol (from 2.3.27). + - proc_dir structure no longer needed for kernel >= 2.3.27. + +Sun Oct 3 19:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5f + - Change the way the driver checks the PCI clock frequency, so + that overclocked PCI BUS up to 48 MHz will not be refused. + The more the BUS is overclocked, the less the driver will + guarantee that its measure of the SCSI clock is correct. + - Backport some minor improvements of SCRIPTS from the sym_hipd + driver. + - Backport the code rewrite of the START QUEUE dequeuing (on + bad scsi status received) from the sym_hipd driver. + +Sat Sep 11 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5e + - New linux-2.3.13 __setup scheme support added. + - Cleanup of the extended error status handling: + Use 1 bit per error type. + - Also save the extended error status prior to auto-sense. + - Add the FE_DIFF chip feature bit to indicate support of + diff probing from GPIO3 (825/825A/876/875). + - Remove the quirk handling that has been useless since day one. + - Work-around PCI chips being reported twice on some platforms. + - Add some redundant PCI reads in order to deal with common + bridge misbehaviour regarding posted write flushing. + - Add some other conditional code for people who have to deal + with really broken bridges (they will have to edit a source + file to try these options). + - Handle correctly (hopefully) jiffies wrap-around. + - Restore the entry used to detect 875 until revision 0xff. + (I removed it inadvertently, it seems :) ) + - Replace __initfunc() which is deprecated stuff by __init which + is not yet so. ;-) + - Rewrite the MESSAGE IN scripts more generic by using a MOVE + table indirect. Extended messages of any size are accepted now. + (Size is limited to 8 for now, but a constant is just to be + increased if necessary) + - Fix some bug in the fully untested MDP handling:) and share + some code between MDP handling and residual calculation. + - Calculate the data transfer residual as the 2's complement + integer (A positive value in returned on data overrun, and + a negative one on underrun). + - Add support of some 'resource handling' for linux-2.3.13. + Basically the BARs have been changed to something more complex + in the pci_dev structure. + - Remove some deprecated code. + +Sat Jun 5 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5c + - Do not negotiate on auto-sense if we are currently using 8 bit + async transfer for the target. + - Only check for SISL/RAID on i386 platforms. + (A problem has been reported on PPC with that code). + - On MSG REJECT for a negotiation, the driver attempted to restart + the SCRIPT processor when this one was already running. + +Sat May 29 12:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5b + - Force negotiation prior auto-sense. + This ensures that the driver will be able to grab the sense data + from a device that has received a BUS DEVICE RESET message from + another initiator. + - Complete all disconnected CCBs for a logical UNIT if we are told + about a UNIT ATTENTION for a RESET condition by this target. + - Add the control command 'cleardev' that allows to send a ABORT + message to a logical UNIT (for test purpose). + +Tue May 25 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5a + - Add support for task abort and bus device reset SCSI message + and implement proper synchronisation with SCRIPTS to handle + correctly task abortion without races. + - Send an ABORT message (if untagged) or ABORT TAG message (if tagged) + when the driver is told to abort a command that is disconnected and + complete the command with appropriate error. + If the aborted command is not yet started, remove it from the start + queue and complete it with error. + - Add the control command 'resetdev' that allows to send a BUS + DEVICE RESET message to a target (for test purpose). + - Clean-up some unused or useless code. + +Fri May 21 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.5 + - Add support for CHMOV with Wide controllers. + - Handling of the SWIDE (low byte residue at the end of a CHMOV + in DATA IN phase with WIDE transfer when the byte count gets odd). + - Handling of the IGNORE WIDE RESIDUE message. + Handled from SCRIPTS as possible with some optimizations when both + a wide device and the controller are odd at the same time (SWIDE + present and IGNORE WIDE RESIDUE message on the BUS at the same time). + - Check against data OVERRUN/UNDERRUN condition at the end of a data + transfer, whatever a SWIDE is present (OVERRUN in DATA IN phase) + or the SODL is full (UNDERRUN in DATA out phase). + - Handling of the MODIFY DATA POINTER message. + This one cannot be handled from SCRIPTS, but hopefully it will not + happen very often. :) + - Large rewrite of the SCSI MESSAGE handling. + +Sun May 9 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.4 + - Support for IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION. + See the README file for detailed information about this feature. + Requires both a compile option and a boot option. + - Minor SCRIPTS optimization in reselection pattern for LUN 0. + - Simpler algorithm to deal with SCSI command starvation. + Just use 2 tag counters in flip/flop and switch to the other + one every 3 seconds. + - Do some work in SCRIPTS after the SELECT instruction and prior + to testing for a PHASE. SYMBIOS say this feature is working fine. + (Btw, only problems with Toshiba 3401B had been reported). + - Measure the PCI clock speed and do not attach controllers if + result is greater than 37 MHz. Since the precision of the + algorithm (from Stefan Esser) is better than 2%, this should + be fine. + - Fix the misdetection of SYM53C875E (was detected as a 876). + - Fix the misdetection of SYM53C810 not A (was detected as a 810A). + - Support for up to 256 TAGS per LUN (CMD_PER_LUN). + Currently limited to 255 due to Linux limitation. :) + - Support for up to 508 active commands (CAN_QUEUE). + - Support for the 53C895A by Pamela Delaney <pam.delaney@lsil.com> + The 53C895A contains all of the features of the 896 but has only + one channel and has a 32 bit PCI bus. It does 64 bit PCI addressing + using dual cycle PCI data transfers. + - Miscellaneous minor fixes. + - Some additions to the README.ncr53c8xx file. + +Tue Apr 15 10:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.3e + - Support for any number of LUNs (64) (SPI2-compliant). + (Btw, this may only be ever useful under linux-2.2 ;-)) + +Sun Apr 11 10:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.3d + - Add 'hostid:#id' boot option. This option allows to change the + default SCSI id the driver uses for controllers. + - Make SCRIPTS not use self-mastering for PCI. + There were still 2 places the driver used this feature of the + 53C8XX family. + - Move some data structures (nvram layouts and driver set-up) to + the sym53c8xx_defs.h file. So, the both drivers will share them. + - Set MAX LUNS to 16 (instead of 8). + +Sat Mar 20 21:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.3b + - Add support for NCR PQS PDS. + James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@columbiasc.ncr.com> + - Allow value 0 for host ID. + - Support more than 8 controllers (> 40 in fact :-) ) + - Add 'excl=#ioaddr' boot option: exclude controller. + (Version 1.3a driver) + +Thu Mar 11 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.3 (8xx-896 driver bundle) + - Equivalent changes as ncr53c8xx-3.2 due to the driver bundle. + (See Changelog.ncr53c8xx) + - Do a normal soft reset as first chip reset, since aborting current + operation may raise an interrupt we are not able to handle since + the interrupt handler is not yet established. + +Sat Mar 6 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.2b + - Fix some oooold bug that hangs the bus if a device rejects a + negotiation. Btw, the corresponding stuff also needed some cleanup + and thus the change is a bit larger than it could have been. + - Still some typo that made compilation fail for 64 bit (trivial fix). + +Sun Feb 21 20:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.2a + - The rewrite of the interrupt handling broke the SBMC interrupt + handling due to a 1 bit mask tiny error. Hopefully fixed. + - If INQUIRY came from a scatter list, the driver looked into + the scatterlist instead of the data.:) Since this should never + happen, we just discard the data if use_sg is not zero. + +Fri Feb 12 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.2 + - Major rewrite of the interrupt handling and recovery stuff for + the support of non compliant SCSI removal, insertion and all + kinds of screw-up that may happen on the SCSI BUS. + Hopefully, the driver is now unbreakable or may-be, it is just + quite broken. :-) + Many thanks to Johnson Russel (Symbios) for having responded to + my questions and for his interesting advices and comments about + support of SCSI hot-plug. + - Add 'recovery' option to driver set-up. + - Negotiate SYNC data transfers with CCS devices. + - Deal correctly with 64 bit PCI address registers on Linux 2.2. + Pointed out by Leonard Zubkoff. + +Sun Jan 31 18:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.1a + - Some 896 chip revisions (all for now :-)), may hang-up if the + soft reset bit is set at the wrong time while SCRIPTS are running. + We need to first abort the current SCRIPTS operation prior to + resetting the chip. This fix has been sent to me by SYMBIOS/LSI + and I just translated it into ncr53c8xx syntax. + Must be considered 100 % trustable, unless I did some mistake + when translating it. :-) + +Sun Jan 24 18:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.1 + - Major rewrite of the SCSI parity error handling. + The information contained in the data manuals is incomplete about + this feature. + I asked SYMBIOS about and got in reply the explanations that are + _indeed_ missing in the data manuals. + - Allow to tune request_irq() flags from the boot command line using + ncr53c8xx=irqm:??, as follows: + a) If bit 0x10 is set in irqm, SA_SHIRQ flag is not used. + b) If bit 0x20 is set in irqm, SA_INTERRUPT flag is not used. + By default the driver uses both SA_SHIRQ and SA_INTERRUPT. + Option 'ncr53c8xx=irqm:0x20' may be used when an IRQ is shared by + a 53C8XX adapter and a network board. + - Fix for 64 bit PCI address register calculation. (Lance Robinson) + - Fix for big-endian in phase mismatch handling. (Michal Jaegermann) + +Fri Jan 1 20:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.0a + - Waiting list look-up didn't work for the first command of the list. + Hopefully fixed, but tested on paper only. ;) + - Remove the most part of PPC specific code for Linux-2.2. + Thanks to Cort. + - Some other minors changes. + +Sat Dec 19 21:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version sym53c8xx-1.0 + - Define some new IO registers for the 896 (istat1, mbox0, mbox1) + - Revamp slightly the Symbios NVRAM lay-out based on the excerpt of + the header file I received from Symbios. + - Check the PCI bus number for the boot order (Using a fast + PCI controller behind a PCI-PCI bridge seems sub-optimal). + - Disable overlapped PCI arbitration for the 896 revision 1. + - Reduce a bit the number of IO register reads for phase mismatch + by reading DWORDS at a time instead of BYTES. + +Thu Dec 3 24:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.18 + - I received this afternoon a 896 from SYMBIOS and started testing + the driver with this beast. After having fixed 3 buglets, it worked + with all features enabled including the phase mismatch handling + from SCRIPTS. Since this feature is not yet tested enough, the + boot option 'ncr53c8xx=specf:1' is still required to enable the + driver to handle PM from SCRIPTS. + +Sun Nov 29 18:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.17 + - The SISL RAID change requires now remap_pci_mem() stuff to be + compiled for __i386__ when normal IOs are used. + - The PCI memory read from SCRIPTS that should ensure ordering + was in fact misplaced. BTW, this may explain why broken PCI + device drivers regarding ordering are working so well. ;-) + - Rewrite ncr53c8xx_setup (boot command line options) since the + binary code was a bit too bloated in my opinion. + - Make the code simpler in the wakeup_done routine. + +Tue Nov 24 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.16 + - Add SCSI_NCR_OPTIMIZE_896_1 compile option and 'optim' boot option. + When set, the driver unconditionally assumes that the interrupt + handler is called for command completion, then clears INTF, scans + the done queue and returns if some completed CCB is found. If no + completed CCB are found, interrupt handling will proceed normally. + With a 896 that handles MA from SCRIPTS, this can be a great win, + since the driver will never performs PCI read transactions, but + only PCI write transactions that may be posted. + If the driver haven't to also raise the SIGP this would be perfect. + Even with this penalty, I think that this will work great. + Obviously this optimization makes sense only if the IRQ is not + shared with another device. + - Still a buglet in the tags initial settings that needed to be fixed. + It was not possible to disable TGQ at system startup for devices + that claim TGQ support. The driver used at least 2 for the queue + depth but didn't keep track of user settings for tags depth lower + than 2. + +Thu Nov 19 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.15 + - Add support for hardware LED control of the 896. + - Ignore chips that are driven by SISL RAID (DAC 960). + Change sent by Leonard Zubkoff and slightly reworked. + - Prevent 810A rev 11 and 860 rev 1 from using cache line based + transactions since those early chip revisions may use such on + LOAD/STORE instructions (work-around). + - Remove some useless and bloat code from the pci init stuff. + - Do not use the readX()/writeX() kernel functions for __i386__, + since they perform useless masking operations in order to deal + with broken driver in 2.1.X kernel. + +Wed Nov 11 10:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.14 + - The driver was unhappy when configured with default_tags > MAX_TAGS + Hopefully doubly-fixed. + - Set PCI_PARITY in PCI_COMMAND register in not set (PCI fix-up). + - Print out some message if phase mismatch is handled from SCRIPTS. + +Sun Nov 1 14H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.13 + - Some rewrite of the device detection code. This code had been + patched too much and needed to be face-lifted a bit. + Remove all platform dependent fix-ups that was not needed or + conflicted with some other driver code as work-arounds. + Reread the NVRAM before the calling of ncr_attach(). This spares + stack space and so allows to handle more boards. + Handle 64 bit base addresses under linux-2.0.X. + Set MASTER bit in PCI COMMAND register if not set. + +Wed Oct 30 22H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.12 + - Damned! I just broke the driver for Alpha by leaving a stale + instruction in the source code. Hopefully fixed. + - Do not set PFEN when it is useless. Doing so we are sure that BOF + will be active, since the manual appears to be very unclear on what + feature is actually used by the chip when both PFEN and BOF are + set. + +Sat Oct 24 16H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.11 + - LOAD/STORE instructions were miscompiled for register offsets + beyond 0x7f. This broke accesses to 896' new registers. + - Disable by default Phase Mismatch handling from SCRIPTS, since + current 896 rev.1 seems not to operate safely with the driver + when this feature is enabled (and above LOAD/STORE fix applied). + I will change the default to 'enabled' when this problem will be + solved. + Using boot option 'ncr53c8xx=specf:1' enables this feature. + - Implement a work-around (DEL 472 - ITEM 5) that should allow the + driver to safely enable hardware phase mismatch with 896 rev. 1. + +Tue Oct 20 22H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.10 + - Add the 53c876 description to the chip table. This is only useful + for printing the right name of the controller. + - Add additional checking of INQUIRY data: + Check INQUIRY data received length is at least 7. Byte 7 of + inquiry data contains device features bits and the driver might + be confused by garbage. Also check peripheral qualifier. + - Use a 1,3,5,...MAXTAGS*2+1 tag numbering. Previous driver could + use any tag number from 1 to 253 and some non conformant devices + might have problems with large tag numbers. + - Use NAME53C and NAME53C8XX for chip name prefix chip family name. + Just give a try using "sym53c" and "sym53c8xx" instead of "ncr53c" + and "ncr53c8xx". :-) + +Sun Oct 11 17H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.9 + - DEL-441 Item 2 work-around for the 53c876 rev <= 5 (0x15). + - Break ncr_scatter() into 2 functions in order to guarantee best + possible code optimization for the case we get a scatter list. + - Add the code intended to support up to 1 tera-byte for 64 bit systems. + It is probably too early, but I wanted to complete the thing. + +Sat Oct 3 14H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) + * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.8 + - Do some testing with io_mapped and fix what needed to be so. + - Wait for SCSI selection to complete or time-out immediately after + the chip won arbitration, since executing SCRIPTS while the SCSI + core is performing SCSI selection breaks the selection procedure + at least for some chip revisions. + - Interrupt the SCRIPTS if a device does not go to MSG OUT phase after + having been selected with ATN. Such a situation is not recoverable, + better to fail when we are stuck. |