TODO revision 1.6
1$NetBSD: TODO,v 1.6 2000/03/03 12:32:15 soda Exp $ 2 3To do list (not in any particular order). 4 5 o Move the RO and WIRED attribute from the pte to the pv table. 6 This saves four instructions in the tlb miss handler. 7 8 o Boot. Standalone boot program instead of booting the kernel directly? 9 10 o Find out why bitmap load to S3-928 flashes screen. (X server) 11 Know why (enable linear mode). Need S3 info. 12 13 o Can we have 32 double registers? 14 15 o 64bit kernel/userland 16 17 o repair DeskStation and Algor support 18 19 - 64bit device physical address space for Tyne (see OpenBSD pmap.c) 20 21 - requires bus_dma 22 23 o source code structure is quite obsolete, 24 general clean up is needed as nisimura-san suggested. 25 especially: 26 27 - introduce struct platform and remove ugly ``switch (cputype)'' 28 in many places. 29 30 - implement and use bus_dma 31 32 - clean up bus_space implementation, remove inb/outb 33 34 o fix kernel start address 35 36 o merge new wscons 37 38 o parse ARC BIOS configuration information and use it 39 40 o omit __BROKEN_CONFIG_UNIT_USAGE 41 42 o omit __SWAP_BROKEN in <mips/types.h> 43 44 o fix implementation of DELAY(), clean up clock implementation 45 46 o asc.c scsi clock/NCR53CF94 handling clean up 47 48 o if_sn.c ether address handling clean up 49 50 o com_lbus.c clock handling clean up 51 52 o implement NCR 53c700(?) driver for NEC RISCserver 2200 53 based on amiga siop driver? 54 55 o audio driver 56 57 o use MI driver 58 59 - use MI ncr53c9x driver instead of home grown asc 60 61 - use MI bha driver instead of home grown btl 62 63 - make sonic driver MI, and share it with mac68k, newsmips/apbus 64 65 - make fd driver MI, and share it with i386 66 (contact christos about MI fd driver) 67 68 - make pccons MI, and share it with i386, 69 or simply eliminate pccons 70 71 - LKM 72 73 o ARC boot device name -> NetBSD root device conversion 74 75 o and missing MI devices 76 ses?, lkm, vcoda, ... 77 78 o way to specify serial console 79 80 o resolve "XXX" 81 82Lots of other things..... 83