patch-2.2.6 linux/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx

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• Date: Mon Apr 12 09:51:04 1999
• Orig file: v2.2.5/linux/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
• Orig date: Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969

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+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 brocken. :-)
+	  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 informations contained in the data manuals are 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 slighly 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 behing 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 unconditionnaly 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 did'nt 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.
+	- Donnot 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 dependant 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.
+	- Donnot 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 additionnal 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.