1 Sat May 12 12:00 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier
2 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3c
3 - Ensure LEDC bit in GPCNTL is cleared
4 Fix sent by Stig Telfer <stig@api-net
5 - Backport from SYM-2 the work-around
6 hardwares that fail PCI parity check
7 - Check that we received at least 8 by
8 for byte 7, that contains device cap
9 - Define scsi_set_pci_device() as nil
10 - + A couple of minor changes.
11
12 Sat Apr 7 19:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
13 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3b
14 - Fix an unaligned LOAD from scripts (
15 - In ncr_soft_reset(), only try to ABO
16 for chips that support SRUN bit in I
17 currently running, as 896 and 1010 m
18 - In the CCB abort path, do not assume
19 queued to SCRIPTS. This is not alway
20 QUEUE FULL status or when using unta
21
22 Sun Mar 4 18:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
23 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3a
24 - Fix an issue in the ncr_int_udc() (u
25 handling. If the DSA didn't match a
26 memory could happen.
27
28 Mon Feb 12 22:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier
29 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3
30 - Support for hppa.
31 Tiny patch sent to me by Robert Hirs
32 - Tiny patch for ia64 sent to me by Pa
33
34 Tue Feb 6 13:30 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
35 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.3-pre1
36 - Call pci_enable_device() as AC wants
37 - Get both the BAR cookies used by CPU
38 values used from SCRIPTS. Recent PCI
39 access themselves using internal cyc
40 BAR values to destination address to
41 Earlier chips simply use PCI transac
42 registers from SCRIPTS.
43 The bus_dvma_to_mem() interface that
44 PCI BAR value from the BAR cookie is
45 This point had been discussed at the
46 got approved by PCI code maintainer
47 - Merge changes for linux-2.4 that dec
48 in the driver object also when the d
49 linked with the kernel.
50 - Increase SCSI message size up to 12
51 bytes was not enough for the PPR mes
52 - Add field 'maxoffs_st' (max offset f
53 The C1010 supports offset 62 in DT m
54 ST mode, to 2 different values for t
55 are needed. Replace the obviously wr
56 offset against 0x1f for ST mode by a
57 maxoffs_st of the SCSI offset in ST
58 - Refine a work-around for the C1010-6
59 not requires extra cycles in DT DATA
60 - Add a missing endian-ization (abrt_t
61 - Minor clean-up in the np structure f
62 from SCRIPTS that requires special a
63
64 Sun Sep 24 21:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
65 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.2
66 - Remove the hack for PPC added in pre
67 - Add FE_DAC feature bit to distinguis
68 addressing (FE_DAC) and 64 bit PCI i
69 - Get rid of the boot command line "ul
70 This parameter wasn't that clever si
71 for Ultra/Ultra2 settings, and for U
72 pass PPR options (for now only DT cl
73 - Add FE_VARCLK feature bit that indic
74 frequency may vary depending on boar
75 the driver should try to evaluate th
76 - Simplify the way the driver determin
77 ULTRA3 -> 160 MHz, ULTRA2 -> 80 MHz
78 Measure the SCSI clock frequency if
79 - Remove FE_CLK80 feature bit that got
80 - Add support for the SYM53C875A (Pame
81
82 Wed Jul 26 23:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
83 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.1
84 - Provide OpenFirmware path through th
85 - Download of on-chip SRAM using memcp
86 on PPC. Restore previous method (MEM
87 - Remove trailing argument #2 from a c
88
89 Sun Jul 09 16:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
90 * version sym53c8xx-1.7.0
91 - Remove the PROFILE C and SCRIPTS cod
92 This facility was not this useful an
93 desirable given the increasing compl
94 - Merges from FreeBSD sym-1.6.2 driver
95 * Clarify memory barriers needed by
96 that implement a weak memory order
97 * Simpler handling of illegal phases
98 SCRIPTS. These errors are now imme
99 the C code by an interrupt.
100 * Sync the residual handling code wi
101 report `resid' to user for linux v
102 - General cleanup:
103 Move definitions for barriers and IO
104 sym53c8xx_defs.h header files. They
105 both drivers.
106 Remove unused options that claimed t
107 If fact, they were not this clever.
108 Use SCSI_NCR_IOMAPPED instead of NCR
109 Remove a couple of unused fields fro
110
111 Thu May 11 12:40 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
112 * version sym53c8xx-1.6b
113 - Merged version.
114
115 Mon Apr 24 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
116 * version sym53c8xx-1.5m
117 - Return value 1 (instead of 0) from t
118 - Do not enable PCI DAC cycles. This j
119 SYM534C896 on sparc64. Problem fixed
120
121 Fri Apr 14 9:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@
122 * version sym53c8xx-1.6b-9
123 - Added 53C1010_66 support.
124 - Small fix to integrity checking code
125 - Removed requirement for integrity ch
126 at ultra 3.
127
128 Sat Apr 1 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
129 * version sym53c8xx-1.5l
130 - Tiny change for __sparc__ appeared i
131 applies to cache line size (? Probab
132 - Make sure no data transfer will happ
133 that supply SCSI_DATA_NONE direction
134 statement in the PCI code when a dat
135
136 Sat Mar 11 12:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
137 * version sym53c8xx-1.6b-5
138 - Test against expected data transfer
139 - Add support for the new dynamic dma
140 Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with p
141 Many thanks to David S. Miller for h
142 that have been useful guidelines.
143 - Get data transfer direction from the
144 (Scsi_Cmnd) with kernels that provid
145
146 Mon Mar 6 23:30 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
147 * version sym53c8xx-1.5k
148 - Test against expected data transfer
149 - Revert the change in 'ncr_flush_done
150 scsi dma buffer prior to queueing th
151 list.
152 - Miscellaneous (minor) fixes in the c
153 version 1.5j.
154
155 Mon Feb 14 4:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney@
156 * version sym53c8xx-pre-1.6b-2.
157 - Updated the SCRIPTS error handling o
158 condition - to remove any reads of t
159 register. Changes needed because the
160 chips will check parity in some spec
161 This will cause a parity error inter
162 data phase. Changes based on those
163 FreeBSD driver version 1.3.2.
164
165 Sun Feb 20 11:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
166 * version sym53c8xx-1.5j
167 - Add support for the new dynamic dma
168 Requires Linux-2.3.47 (tested with p
169 Many thanks to David S. Miller for h
170 that have been useful guidelines, fo
171 code and having tested this driver v
172 - 2 tiny bugs fixed in the PCI wrapper
173 for early kernels without pci device
174 - Get data transfer direction from the
175 (Scsi_Cmnd) with kernels that provid
176 - Fix an old bug that only affected 89
177 profile support option was set in ke
178
179 Fri Jan 14 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
180 * version sym53c8xx-pre-1.6b-1.
181 - Merge parallel driver series 1.61 an
182
183 Tue Jan 11 14:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
184 * version sym53c8xx-1.61
185 - Added support for mounting disks on
186 scsi configurations.
187 - Modified offset to be a maximum of 3
188 62 in DT mode.
189 - Based off of 1.60
190
191 Mon Jan 10 10:00 2000 Pam Delaney (pam.delaney
192 * version sym53c8xx-1.60
193 - Added capability to use the integrit
194 in the kernel (optional).
195 - Added PPR negotiation.
196 - Added support for 53C1010 Ultra 3 pa
197 - Based off of 1.5f
198
199 Sat Jan 8 22:00 2000 Gerard Roudier (groudier
200 * version sym53c8xx-1.5h
201 - Add year 2000 copyright.
202 - Display correctly bus signals when b
203 - Some fix for Sparc from DSM that wen
204
205 Mon Dec 6 22:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier
206 * version sym53c8xx-1.5g
207 - Change messages written by the drive
208 through the /proc FS (rather cosmeti
209 printing out the PCI bus number and
210 - Ensure the SCRIPTS processor is stop
211 SCSI clock (the initialisation code
212 Change moved to the FreeBSD sym_hipd
213 - Some fixes in the MODIFY_DP/IGN_RESI
214 calculation (moved from FreeBSD sym_
215 - Add NVRAM support for Tekram boards
216 Code moved from the FreeBSD sym_hipd
217 been that one that got this feature
218 - Definitely disable overlapped PCI ar
219 function chips, since I cannot make
220 it is actually safe.
221 - Add support for the SYM53C1510D (als
222 - Fix up properly the PCI latency time
223 - Get rid of the old PCI bios interfac
224 compatibility from a simple wrapper.
225 - Update the poor Tekram sync factor t
226 - Fix in a tiny 'printk' bug that may
227 errors (unrecovered parity error, da
228 (Sent by Pamela Delaney from LSILOGI
229 - Remove the compilation condition abo
230 io_request_lock since it seems to be
231 - Change get_pages by GetPages since L
232 get_pages to ever be used as a kerne
233 - proc_dir structure no longer needed
234
235 Sun Oct 3 19:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
236 * version sym53c8xx-1.5f
237 - Change the way the driver checks the
238 that overclocked PCI BUS up to 48 MH
239 The more the BUS is overclocked, the
240 guarantee that its measure of the SC
241 - Backport some minor improvements of
242 driver.
243 - Backport the code rewrite of the STA
244 bad scsi status received) from the s
245
246 Sat Sep 11 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
247 * version sym53c8xx-1.5e
248 - New linux-2.3.13 __setup scheme supp
249 - Cleanup of the extended error status
250 Use 1 bit per error type.
251 - Also save the extended error status
252 - Add the FE_DIFF chip feature bit to
253 diff probing from GPIO3 (825/825A/87
254 - Remove the quirk handling that has b
255 - Work-around PCI chips being reported
256 - Add some redundant PCI reads in orde
257 bridge misbehaviour regarding posted
258 - Add some other conditional code for
259 with really broken bridges (they wil
260 file to try these options).
261 - Handle correctly (hopefully) jiffies
262 - Restore the entry used to detect 875
263 (I removed it inadvertently, it seem
264 - Replace __initfunc() which is deprec
265 is not yet so. ;-)
266 - Rewrite the MESSAGE IN scripts more
267 table indirect. Extended messages of
268 (Size is limited to 8 for now, but a
269 increased if necessary)
270 - Fix some bug in the fully untested M
271 some code between MDP handling and r
272 - Calculate the data transfer residual
273 integer (A positive value in returne
274 a negative one on underrun).
275 - Add support of some 'resource handli
276 Basically the BARs have been changed
277 in the pci_dev structure.
278 - Remove some deprecated code.
279
280 Sat Jun 5 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
281 * version sym53c8xx-1.5c
282 - Do not negotiate on auto-sense if we
283 async transfer for the target.
284 - Only check for SISL/RAID on i386 pla
285 (A problem has been reported on PPC
286 - On MSG REJECT for a negotiation, the
287 the SCRIPT processor when this one w
288
289 Sat May 29 12:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
290 * version sym53c8xx-1.5b
291 - Force negotiation prior auto-sense.
292 This ensures that the driver will be
293 from a device that has received a BU
294 another initiator.
295 - Complete all disconnected CCBs for a
296 about a UNIT ATTENTION for a RESET c
297 - Add the control command 'cleardev' t
298 message to a logical UNIT (for test
299
300 Tue May 25 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
301 * version sym53c8xx-1.5a
302 - Add support for task abort and bus d
303 and implement proper synchronisation
304 correctly task abortion without race
305 - Send an ABORT message (if untagged)
306 when the driver is told to abort a c
307 complete the command with appropriat
308 If the aborted command is not yet st
309 queue and complete it with error.
310 - Add the control command 'resetdev' t
311 DEVICE RESET message to a target (fo
312 - Clean-up some unused or useless code
313
314 Fri May 21 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
315 * version sym53c8xx-1.5
316 - Add support for CHMOV with Wide cont
317 - Handling of the SWIDE (low byte resi
318 in DATA IN phase with WIDE transfer
319 - Handling of the IGNORE WIDE RESIDUE
320 Handled from SCRIPTS as possible wit
321 a wide device and the controller are
322 present and IGNORE WIDE RESIDUE mess
323 - Check against data OVERRUN/UNDERRUN
324 transfer, whatever a SWIDE is presen
325 or the SODL is full (UNDERRUN in DAT
326 - Handling of the MODIFY DATA POINTER
327 This one cannot be handled from SCRI
328 happen very often. :)
329 - Large rewrite of the SCSI MESSAGE ha
330
331 Sun May 9 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier
332 * version sym53c8xx-1.4
333 - Support for IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION.
334 See the README file for detailed inf
335 Requires both a compile option and a
336 - Minor SCRIPTS optimization in resele
337 - Simpler algorithm to deal with SCSI
338 Just use 2 tag counters in flip/flop
339 one every 3 seconds.
340 - Do some work in SCRIPTS after the SE
341 to testing for a PHASE. SYMBIOS say
342 (Btw, only problems with Toshiba 340
343 - Measure the PCI clock speed and do n
344 result is greater than 37 MHz. Since
345 algorithm (from Stefan Esser) is bet
346 be fine.
347 - Fix the misdetection of SYM53C875E (
348 - Fix the misdetection of SYM53C810 no
349 - Support for up to 256 TAGS per LUN (
350 Currently limited to 255 due to Linu
351 - Support for up to 508 active command
352 - Support for the 53C895A by Pamela De<
353 The 53C895A contains all of the feat
354 one channel and has a 32 bit PCI bus
355 using dual cycle PCI data transfers.
356 - Miscellaneous minor fixes.
357 - Some additions to the README.ncr53c8
358
359 Tue Apr 15 10:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
360 * version sym53c8xx-1.3e
361 - Support for any number of LUNs (64)
362 (Btw, this may only be ever useful u
363
364 Sun Apr 11 10:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
365 * version sym53c8xx-1.3d
366 - Add 'hostid:#id' boot option. This o
367 default SCSI id the driver uses for
368 - Make SCRIPTS not use self-mastering
369 There were still 2 places the driver
370 53C8XX family.
371 - Move some data structures (nvram lay
372 the sym53c8xx_defs.h file. So, the b
373 - Set MAX LUNS to 16 (instead of 8).
374
375 Sat Mar 20 21:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
376 * version sym53c8xx-1.3b
377 - Add support for NCR PQS PDS.
378 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@colu
379 - Allow value 0 for host ID.
380 - Support more than 8 controllers (> 4
381 - Add 'excl=#ioaddr' boot option: excl
382 (Version 1.3a driver)
383
384 Thu Mar 11 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
385 * version sym53c8xx-1.3 (8xx-896 dri
386 - Equivalent changes as ncr53c8xx-3.2
387 (See Changelog.ncr53c8xx)
388 - Do a normal soft reset as first chip
389 operation may raise an interrupt we
390 the interrupt handler is not yet est
391
392 Sat Mar 6 11:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudier
393 * version sym53c8xx-1.2b
394 - Fix some oooold bug that hangs the b
395 negotiation. Btw, the corresponding
396 and thus the change is a bit larger
397 - Still some typo that made compilatio
398
399 Sun Feb 21 20:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
400 * version sym53c8xx-1.2a
401 - The rewrite of the interrupt handlin
402 handling due to a 1 bit mask tiny er
403 - If INQUIRY came from a scatter list,
404 the scatterlist instead of the data.
405 happen, we just discard the data if
406
407 Fri Feb 12 23:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
408 * version sym53c8xx-1.2
409 - Major rewrite of the interrupt handl
410 the support of non compliant SCSI re
411 kinds of screw-up that may happen on
412 Hopefully, the driver is now unbreak
413 quite broken. :-)
414 Many thanks to Johnson Russel (Symbi
415 my questions and for his interesting
416 support of SCSI hot-plug.
417 - Add 'recovery' option to driver set-
418 - Negotiate SYNC data transfers with C
419 - Deal correctly with 64 bit PCI addre
420 Pointed out by Leonard Zubkoff.
421
422 Sun Jan 31 18:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
423 * version sym53c8xx-1.1a
424 - Some 896 chip revisions (all for now
425 soft reset bit is set at the wrong t
426 We need to first abort the current S
427 resetting the chip. This fix has bee
428 and I just translated it into ncr53c
429 Must be considered 100 % trustable,
430 when translating it. :-)
431
432 Sun Jan 24 18:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
433 * version sym53c8xx-1.1
434 - Major rewrite of the SCSI parity err
435 The information contained in the dat
436 this feature.
437 I asked SYMBIOS about and got in rep
438 _indeed_ missing in the data manuals
439 - Allow to tune request_irq() flags fr
440 ncr53c8xx=irqm:??, as follows:
441 a) If bit 0x10 is set in irqm, SA_SH
442 b) If bit 0x20 is set in irqm, SA_IN
443 By default the driver uses both SA_S
444 Option 'ncr53c8xx=irqm:0x20' may be
445 a 53C8XX adapter and a network board
446 - Fix for 64 bit PCI address register
447 - Fix for big-endian in phase mismatch
448
449 Fri Jan 1 20:00 1999 Gerard Roudier (groudie
450 * version sym53c8xx-1.0a
451 - Waiting list look-up didn't work for
452 Hopefully fixed, but tested on paper
453 - Remove the most part of PPC specific
454 Thanks to Cort.
455 - Some other minors changes.
456
457 Sat Dec 19 21:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
458 * version sym53c8xx-1.0
459 - Define some new IO registers for the
460 - Revamp slightly the Symbios NVRAM la
461 the header file I received from Symb
462 - Check the PCI bus number for the boo
463 PCI controller behind a PCI-PCI brid
464 - Disable overlapped PCI arbitration f
465 - Reduce a bit the number of IO regist
466 by reading DWORDS at a time instead
467
468 Thu Dec 3 24:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
469 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.18
470 - I received this afternoon a 896 from
471 the driver with this beast. After ha
472 with all features enabled including
473 from SCRIPTS. Since this feature is
474 boot option 'ncr53c8xx=specf:1' is s
475 driver to handle PM from SCRIPTS.
476
477 Sun Nov 29 18:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
478 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.17
479 - The SISL RAID change requires now re
480 compiled for __i386__ when normal IO
481 - The PCI memory read from SCRIPTS tha
482 was in fact misplaced. BTW, this may
483 device drivers regarding ordering ar
484 - Rewrite ncr53c8xx_setup (boot comman
485 binary code was a bit too bloated in
486 - Make the code simpler in the wakeup_
487
488 Tue Nov 24 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
489 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.16
490 - Add SCSI_NCR_OPTIMIZE_896_1 compile
491 When set, the driver unconditionally
492 handler is called for command comple
493 the done queue and returns if some c
494 completed CCB are found, interrupt h
495 With a 896 that handles MA from SCRI
496 since the driver will never performs
497 only PCI write transactions that may
498 If the driver haven't to also raise
499 Even with this penalty, I think that
500 Obviously this optimization makes se
501 shared with another device.
502 - Still a buglet in the tags initial s
503 It was not possible to disable TGQ a
504 that claim TGQ support. The driver u
505 depth but didn't keep track of user
506 than 2.
507
508 Thu Nov 19 23:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
509 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.15
510 - Add support for hardware LED control
511 - Ignore chips that are driven by SISL
512 Change sent by Leonard Zubkoff and s
513 - Prevent 810A rev 11 and 860 rev 1 fr
514 transactions since those early chip
515 LOAD/STORE instructions (work-around
516 - Remove some useless and bloat code f
517 - Do not use the readX()/writeX() kern
518 since they perform useless masking o
519 with broken driver in 2.1.X kernel.
520
521 Wed Nov 11 10:00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudie
522 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.14
523 - The driver was unhappy when configur
524 Hopefully doubly-fixed.
525 - Set PCI_PARITY in PCI_COMMAND regist
526 - Print out some message if phase mism
527
528 Sun Nov 1 14H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
529 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.13
530 - Some rewrite of the device detection
531 patched too much and needed to be fa
532 Remove all platform dependent fix-up
533 conflicted with some other driver co
534 Reread the NVRAM before the calling
535 stack space and so allows to handle
536 Handle 64 bit base addresses under l
537 Set MASTER bit in PCI COMMAND regist
538
539 Wed Oct 30 22H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
540 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.12
541 - Damned! I just broke the driver for
542 instruction in the source code. Hope
543 - Do not set PFEN when it is useless.
544 will be active, since the manual app
545 feature is actually used by the chip
546 set.
547
548 Sat Oct 24 16H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
549 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.11
550 - LOAD/STORE instructions were miscomp
551 beyond 0x7f. This broke accesses to
552 - Disable by default Phase Mismatch ha
553 current 896 rev.1 seems not to opera
554 when this feature is enabled (and ab
555 I will change the default to 'enable
556 solved.
557 Using boot option 'ncr53c8xx=specf:1
558 - Implement a work-around (DEL 472 - I
559 driver to safely enable hardware pha
560
561 Tue Oct 20 22H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
562 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.10
563 - Add the 53c876 description to the ch
564 for printing the right name of the c
565 - Add additional checking of INQUIRY d
566 Check INQUIRY data received length i
567 inquiry data contains device feature
568 be confused by garbage. Also check p
569 - Use a 1,3,5,...MAXTAGS*2+1 tag numbe
570 use any tag number from 1 to 253 and
571 might have problems with large tag n
572 - Use NAME53C and NAME53C8XX for chip
573 Just give a try using "sym53c" and "
574 and "ncr53c8xx". :-)
575
576 Sun Oct 11 17H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier
577 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.9
578 - DEL-441 Item 2 work-around for the 5
579 - Break ncr_scatter() into 2 functions
580 possible code optimization for the c
581 - Add the code intended to support up
582 It is probably too early, but I want
583
584 Sat Oct 3 14H00 1998 Gerard Roudier (groudier@
585 * version pre-sym53c8xx-0.8
586 - Do some testing with io_mapped and f
587 - Wait for SCSI selection to complete
588 the chip won arbitration, since exec
589 core is performing SCSI selection br
590 at least for some chip revisions.
591 - Interrupt the SCRIPTS if a device do
592 having been selected with ATN. Such
593 better to fail when we are stuck.
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