Re: [Linux-ia64] IA-64 Linux TODO list

Don Dugger
2001-01-10T21:51:07Z

All-

OK, I got the web page up with the TODO list on it. You can link
to it from `www.linuxia64.org' or go directly to the page at
`www.linuxia64.org/todo.html'. Check it out and let me know if
there are any changes or additions. Some obvious changes are we
need some volunteers for `EEPro100', `execve' and `gprof' - any
takers?

In addition to the web page I plan on sending out a text copy of
the list to this mailing list on a bi-weekly basis.

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Since we're getting closer to a real release of various IA-64 Linux
> distros, I thought it would be a good idea to pass around my TODO
> list. I'd really appreciate if someone else could maintain this list
> and mail it out periodically (weekly?) as my bw is pretty limited
> right now. Here is what comes to mind:
>
> Kernel
> - enable kernel unaligned handler
> - verify that all on-board hardware is supported and working:
> - does cs4281 sound driver work reliably now?
> - what to do about eepro100? (currently hangs on > 180MB transfers?)
> - investigate and fix test suite failures reported by SCO (Who's the
> contact person at SCO for this? Please make available simple test
> cases that reproduce the problem so we can go about fixing them.)
> - consider clearing CPU state on an execve() to avoid leaking information
> to a new program; Alan Cox thinks it would be sufficient to do this
> when current->dumpable is zero
>
> Libraries
> - gprof support?
>
> Apps
> - gdb
> - NaT bits don't seem to work properly?
> - coredump support still broken?
> - strace
> - 'strace -f' hangs if the program forks a child;
> - verify that the new system calls have been added
>
> I'm planning to work on the kernel unaligned handler but if someone
> else is dying on doing that, let me know. ;-)
>
> If you can think of anything else, please let me know---I'll try keep
> the list uptodate for now.
>
> --david
>
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