1 Sat May 12 12:00 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier
2 * version ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b
3 - Ensure LEDC bit in GPCNTL is cleared
4 Fix sent by Stig Telfer <stig@api-net
5 - Define scsi_set_pci_device() as nil
6
7 Mon Feb 12 22:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier
8 * version ncr53c8xx-3.4.3
9 - Call pci_enable_device() as AC wants
10 - Get both the BAR cookies actual and
11 (see Changelog.sym53c8xx rev. 1.7.3
12 - Merge changes for linux-2.4 that dec
13 in the driver object also when the d
14 linked with the kernel.
15
16 Sun Sep 24 21:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
17 * version ncr53c8xx-3.4.2
18 - See Changelog.sym53c8xx, driver vers
19
20 Wed Jul 26 23:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
21 * version ncr53c8xx-3.4.1
22 - Provide OpenFirmware path through th
23 - Remove trailing argument #2 from a c
24
25 Sun Jul 09 16:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
26 * version ncr53c8xx-3.4.0
27 - Remove the PROFILE C and SCRIPTS cod
28 This facility was not this useful an
29 desirable given the increasing compl
30 - Merges from FreeBSD sym-1.6.2 driver
31 * Clarify memory barriers needed by
32 that implement a weak memory order
33 - General cleanup:
34 Move definitions for barriers and IO
35 sym53c8xx_defs.h header files. They
36 both drivers.
37 Use SCSI_NCR_IOMAPPED instead of NCR
38
39 Thu May 11 12:30 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delan
40 * revision 3.3b
41
42 Mon Apr 24 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
43 * revision 3.2i
44 - Return value 1 (instead of 0) from t
45 - Let the driver also attach controlle
46 OFF in the NVRAM as it did prior to
47
48 Sat Apr 1 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
49 * revision 3.2h
50 - Fix a compilation problem on Alpha i
51 (`port' changed to `base_io').
52 - Move from `sym' to this driver a tin
53 applies to cache line size (? Probab
54 - Make sure no data transfer will happ
55 that supply SCSI_DATA_NONE direction
56 statement in the PCI code when a dat
57
58 Thu Mar 16 9:30 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delane
59 * revision 3.3b-3
60 - Added exclusion for the 53C1010 and
61 to the driver (change to sym53c8xx_c
62
63 Mon March 6 23:15 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudi
64 * revision 3.2g
65 - Add the file sym53c8xx_comm.h that c
66 be shared by sym53c8xx and ncr53c8xx
67 a header file that is only included
68 but things will be cleaned up later.
69 notably:
70 * Chip detection and PCI related ini
71 * NVRAM detection and reading
72 * DMA mapping
73 * Boot setup command
74 * And some other ...
75 - Add support for the new dynamic dma
76 Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with p
77 - Get data transfer direction from the
78 (Scsi_Cmnd) when this information is
79
80 Mon March 6 23:15 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudi
81 * revision 3.2g
82 - Add the file sym53c8xx_comm.h that c
83 be shared by sym53c8xx and ncr53c8xx
84 a header file that is only included
85 but things will be cleaned up later.
86 notably:
87 * Chip detection and PCI related ini
88 * NVRAM detection and reading
89 * DMA mapping
90 * Boot setup command
91 * And some other ...
92 - Add support for the new dynamic dma
93 Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with p
94 - Get data transfer direction from the
95 (Scsi_Cmnd) when this information is
96
97 Fri Jan 14 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
98 * revision pre-3.3b-1
99 - Merge parallel driver series 3.31 an
100
101 Tue Jan 11 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
102 * revision 3.31
103 - Added support for mounting disks on
104 scsi configurations.
105 - Built off of version 3.30
106
107 Mon Jan 10 13:30 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
108 * revision 3.30
109 - Added capability to use the integrit
110 in the kernel (optional).
111 - Disabled support for the 53C1010.
112 - Built off of version 3.2c
113
114 Sat Jan 8 22:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
115 * revision 3.2e
116 - Add year 2000 copyright.
117 - Display correctly bus signals when b
118 - Remove the dead code that broke driv
119
120 Mon Dec 6 22:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier
121 * revision 3.2d
122 - Change messages written by the drive
123 through the /proc FS (rather cosmeti
124 printing out the PCI bus number and
125 - Get rid of the old PCI bios interfac
126 compatibility from a simple wrapper.
127 - Remove the compilation condition abo
128 io_request_lock since it seems to be
129 - proc_dir structure no longer needed
130 - Change the driver detection code by
131 some minor changes. The driver can n
132 controllers (>40) and does no longer
133 initialisation.
134 - Definitely disable overlapped PCI ar
135 function chips, since I cannot make
136 it is actually safe.
137 - Add support for the SYM53C1510D.
138 - Update the poor Tekram sync factor t
139 - Remove the compilation condition abo
140 io_request_lock since it seems to be
141 - proc_dir structure no longer needed
142
143 Sat Sep 11 18:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
144 * revision 3.2c
145 - Handle correctly (hopefully) jiffies
146 - Restore the entry used to detect 875
147 (I removed it inadvertently, it seem
148 - Replace __initfunc() which is deprec
149 is not yet so. ;-)
150 - Add support of some 'resource handli
151 Basically the BARs have been changed
152 in the pci_dev structure.
153 - Remove some deprecated code.
154
155 Sat May 10 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
156 * revision pre-3.2b-1
157 - Support for the 53C895A by Pamela De<
158 The 53C895A contains all of the feat
159 one channel and has a 32 bit PCI bus
160 using dual cycle PCI data transfers.
161 - Miscellaneous minor fixes.
162 - Some additions to the README.ncr53c8
163
164 Sun Apr 11 10:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
165 * revision 3.2a
166 - Add 'hostid:#id' boot option. This o
167 default SCSI id the driver uses for
168 - Remove nvram layouts and driver set-
169 and use the one defined in sym53c8xx
170 (shared by both drivers).
171 - Set for now MAX LUNS to 16 (instead
172
173 Thu Mar 11 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
174 * revision 3.2 (8xx-896 driver bund
175 - Only define the host template in ncr
176 sym53c8xx_defs.h file.
177 - Declare static all symbols that do n
178 outside the driver code.
179 - Add 'excl' boot command option that
180 io address of devices not to attach.
181 - Add info() function called from the
182 driver/host information.
183 - Minor documentation additions.
184
185 Sat Mar 6 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier
186 * revision 3.1h
187 - Fix some oooold bug that hangs the b
188 negotiation. Btw, the corresponding
189 and thus the change is a bit larger
190 - Still some typo that made compilatio
191
192 Sun Feb 14:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier@c
193 * revision 3.1g
194 - Deal correctly with 64 bit PCI addre
195 Pointed out by Leonard Zubkoff.
196 - Allow to tune request_irq() flags fr
197 ncr53c8xx=irqm:??, as follows:
198 a) If bit 0x10 is set in irqm, IRQF_
199 b) If bit 0x20 is set in irqm, IRQF_
200 By default the driver uses both IRQF
201 Option 'ncr53c8xx=irqm:0x20' may be
202 a 53C8XX adapter and a network board
203 - Tiny misspelling fixed (ABORT instea
204 harmless.
205 - Negotiate SYNC data transfers with C
206
207 Sat Jan 16 17:30 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
208 * revision 3.1f
209 - Some PCI fix-ups not needed any more
210 - Cache line size set to 16 DWORDS for
211 - Waiting list look-up didn't work for
212 - Remove 2 useless lines of code.
213
214 Sun Dec 13 18:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
215 * revision 3.1e
216 - Same work-around as for the 53c876 r
217 Disable overlapped arbitration. This
218 since the chip has on-chip RAM.
219
220 Thu Nov 26 22:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
221 * revision 3.1d
222 - The SISL RAID change requires now re
223 compiled for __i386__ when normal IO
224 - Minor spelling fixes in doc files.
225
226 Sat Nov 21 18:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
227 * revision 3.1c
228 - Ignore chips that are driven by SISL
229 Change sent by Leonard Zubkoff and s
230 - Still a buglet in the tags initial s
231 It was not possible to disable TGQ a
232 that claim TGQ support. The driver u
233 depth but didn't keep track of user
234 than 2.
235
236 Wed Nov 11 10:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
237 * revision 3.1b
238 - The driver was unhappy when configur
239 Hopefully doubly-fixed.
240 - Update the Configure.help driver sec
241
242 Wed Oct 21 21:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
243 * revision 3.1a
244 - Changes from Eddie Dost for Sparc an
245 ioremap/iounmap support for Sparc.
246 pcivtophys changed to bus_dvma_to_ph
247 - Add the 53c876 description to the ch
248 for printing the right name of the c
249 - DEL-441 Item 2 work-around for the 5
250 - Add additional checking of INQUIRY d
251 Check INQUIRY data received length i
252 inquiry data contains device feature
253 be confused by garbage. Also check p
254 - Cleanup of the SCSI tasks management
255 Remove the special case for 32 tags.
256 scheme that allows up to 64 tags per
257 Merge some code from the 896 driver.
258 Use a 1,3,5,...MAXTAGS*2+1 tag numbe
259 use any tag number from 1 to 253 and
260 might have problems with large tag n
261 - 'no_sync' changed to 'no_disc' in th
262 and trivial mistake that seems to de
263 not often read. :)
264
265 Sun Oct 4 14:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
266 * revision 3.0i
267 - Cosmetic changes for sparc (but not
268 __irq_itoa() to be used for printed
269 - Some problems with the driver that d
270 were due to a SCSI selection problem
271 documented feature that in fact seem
272 are claimed by the manuals to be abl
273 after arbitration while the SCSI cor
274 This optimization is broken and has
275 - Some broken scsi devices are confuse
276 on a LUN that does not correspond to
277 SCSI specs, this is a device firmwar
278 around by only starting negotiation
279 used for at least 1 successful SCSI
280 - The 'last message sent' printed out
281 was read from the SFBR i/o register
282 been sent.
283 This was not correct and affects all
284 the original FreeBSD one as well. Th
285 so that it now provides the right in
286
287 Sat Jul 18 13:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
288 * revision 3.0g
289 - Preliminary fixes for Big Endian (se
290 Big Endian architectures should work
291 Eddie's patch has been partially app
292 does not have all the Sparc changes
293 - Use of BITS_PER_LONG instead of (~0U
294 the problem observed when the driver
295 PGCC.
296
297 Mon Jul 13 20:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
298 * revision 3.0f
299 - Some spelling fixes.
300 - linux/config.h misplaced in ncr53c8x
301 - MODULE_PARM stuff added for linux 2.
302 - check INQUIRY response data format i
303 - use BITS_PER_LONG if defined.
304
305 Sun Jun 28 12:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
306 * revision 3.0e
307 - Some cleanup, spelling fixes, versio
308 changes, etc ...
309
310 Sat Jun 20 20:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
311 * revision 3.0c
312 - Add a boot setup option that allows
313 at boot-up. This option is very usef
314 allow to change scsi device queue de
315 booted up.
316
317 Sun Jun 15 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
318 * revision 3.0a
319 - Support for up to 64 TAGS per LUN.
320 - Rewrite the TARGET vs LUN capabiliti
321 CmdQueue is now handled as a LUN cap
322 This also fixes a bug triggered when
323 queuing for a device that had this f
324 - Remove the ncr_opennings() stuff tha
325 and hard to understand to me.
326 - Add "setverbose" procfs driver comma
327 verbose level after boot-up. Setting
328 example avoid flooding the syslog fi
329 - Add KERN_XXX to some printk's.
330
331 Tue Jun 10 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
332 * revision 3.0
333 - Linux config changes for 2.0.34:
334 Remove NVRAM detection config option
335 by default but can be disabled by ed
336 Add a PROFILE config option.
337 - Update Configure.help
338 - Add calls to new function mdelay() f
339 kernel version >= 2.1.105.
340 - Replace all printf(s) by printk(s).
341 a driver for Linux.
342 - Perform auto-sense on COMMAND TERMIN
343 - Some other minor changes.
344
345 Tue Jun 4 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
346 * revision 2.6n
347 - Code cleanup and simplification:
348 Remove kernel 1.2.X and 1.3.X suppor
349 Remove the _old_ target capabilities
350 Remove the error recovery code that
351 Use a single alignment boundary (CAC
352 structures.
353 - Several aggressive SCRIPTS optimizat
354 Reselect SCRIPTS code rewritten.
355 Support for selection/reselection wi
356 And some others.
357 - Miscallaneous changes in the C code:
358 Count actual number of CCB queued to
359 Lots of other minor changes.
360
361 Wed May 13 20:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
362 * revision 2.6m
363 - Problem of missed SCSI bus reset wit
364 Richard Waltham. The 53C895 needs ab
365 mode to settle. Delays used while re
366 and the bus have been adjusted. Than
367 - Some simplification for 64 bit arch
368 - Add a check of the MSG_OUT phase aft
369 - The new tagged queue stuff seems ok,
370 message have been conditioned by ver
371 - Do not reset if a SBMC interrupt rep
372 - Print out the whole driver set-up. S
373 the print statement was misplaced fo
374 - Ignore a SCSI parity interrupt if th
375 the SCSI bus.
376
377 Sat May 1 16:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
378 * revision 2.6l
379 - Add CCB done queue support for Alpha
380 architectures.
381 - Add some barriers to enforce memory
382 Alpha architectures.
383 - Fix something that looks like an old
384 interrupt code in case of negotiatio
385
386 Sat Apr 25 21:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
387 * revision 2.6k
388 - Remove all accesses to the on-chip R
389 Use SCRIPTS to load the on-chip RAM.
390 Use SCRIPTS to repair the start queu
391 Use the copy of script in main memor
392 context on phase mismatch.
393 - The above allows now to use the on-c
394 to get access to the on-chip RAM fro
395 on-chip RAM usable for linux-1.2.13
396 instance.
397 - Some simplifications and cleanups in
398 - Buglet fixed in parity error recover
399 - Minor updates in README.ncr53c8xx.
400
401 Wed Apr 15 21:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
402 * revision 2.6j
403 - Incorporate changes from linux-2.1.9
404 - Add SMP support for linux-2.1.95 and
405 - Fix a bug when QUEUE FULL is returne
406 disconnected. This happens with Atla
407 with Atlas II / LXY4.
408 - Nail another one on CHECK condition
409 for auto-sense.
410 - Call scsi_done() for all completed c
411 handling.
412 - Increase the done queue to 24 entrie
413
414 Sat Apr 4 20:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
415 * revision 2.6i
416 - CTEST0 is used by the 53C885 for Pow
417 priority setting between the 2 funct
418 Use SDID instead as actual target nu
419 overwrite it with SSID on reselectio
420 - Split DATA_IN and DATA_OUT scripts i
421 64 segments are moved from on-chip R
422 If more segments, a script in main m
423 additional segments.
424 - Since the SCRIPTS processor continue
425 having won arbitration, do some stuf
426 phase on reselection. This should ha
427 scripts in parallel with the SCSI co
428 - Increase the done queue to 12 entrie
429
430 Sun Mar 29 12:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
431 * revision 2.6h
432 - Some fixes.
433
434 Tue Mar 26 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
435 * revision 2.6g
436 - New done queue. 8 entries by default
437 Can be increased if needed.
438 - Resources management using doubly li
439 - New auto-sense and QUEUE FULL handli
440 stall the NCR queue any more.
441 - New CCB starvation avoiding algorith
442 - Prepare CCBs for SCSI commands that
443 inserting these commands into the wa
444 is now only used while resetting and
445 yet available?
446
447 Sun Feb 8 22:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
448 * revision 2.6f
449 - Some fixes in order to really suppor
450 FAST-20 devices.
451 - Heavy changes in the target/lun reso
452 the scripts to jump directly to the
453 of walking on the lun CCBs list. Up
454 supported without script processor a
455
456 Sun Jan 11 22:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
457 * revision 2.6d
458 - new (different ?) implementation of
459 Use a simple CALL to a launch script
460 - implement a minimal done queue (1 en
461 this avoid scanning all CCBs on INT
462 overflow). Hit ratio is better than
463 need to have a larger done queue.
464 - generalization of the restart of CCB
465 Abort, QUEUE FULL, CHECK CONDITION.
466 This has been called 'silly schedule
467 - make all the profiling code conditio
468 This spare some PCI traffic and C co
469 needed.
470 - handle more cleanly the situation wh
471 The pointers patching is now perform
472 - remove some useless scripts instruct
473
474 Ported from driver 2.5 series:
475 ------------------------------
476 - Use FAST-5 instead of SLOW for slow
477 new SPI-2 draft.
478 - Make some changes in order to accomm
479 device errata listing 397. Minor con
480 . Leave use of PCI Write and Invalid
481 Now, by default the driver does no
482 'specf:y' is required in order to
483 . Memory Read Line is not enabled fo
484 . Programmed burst length set to 64
485 (Note: SYMBIOS uses 32 DWORDS for
486 - Add 'buschk' boot option.
487 This option enables checking of SCSI
488 RESET (set by default). (Submitted b
489 - Update the README file.
490 - Dispatch CONDITION MET and RESERVATI
491 as OK driver status.
492 - Update the README file and the Symbi
493 with removable media flags values (a
494 - Several PCI configuration registers
495 (Patch sent by Cort).
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