[linux-2.6-block.git] / drivers / staging / fsl-mc / TODO

* Decide if multiple root fsl-mc buses will be supported per Linux instance,
  and if so add support for this.

* Add at least one device driver for a DPAA2 object (child device of the
  fsl-mc bus).  Most likely candidate for this is adding DPAA2 Ethernet
  driver support, which depends on drivers for several objects: DPNI,
  DPIO, DPMAC.  Other pre-requisites include:

     * interrupt support. for meaningful driver support we need
       interrupts, and thus need message interrupt support by the bus
       driver.
          -Note: this has dependencies on generic MSI support work
           in process upstream, see [1] and [2].

     * Management Complex (MC) command serialization. locking mechanisms
       are needed by drivers to serialize commands sent to the MC, including
       from atomic context.

     * MC firmware uprev.  The MC firmware upon which the fsl-mc
       bus driver and DPAA2 object drivers are based is continuing
       to evolve, so minor updates are needed to keep in sync with binary
       interface changes to the MC.

* Cleanup

Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
german.rivera@freescale.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/9/93
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/712
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31c88965 GR	1	* Decide if multiple root fsl-mc buses will be supported per Linux instance,
	2	and if so add support for this.
	3
	4	* Add at least one device driver for a DPAA2 object (child device of the
b2069165 SY	5	fsl-mc bus). Most likely candidate for this is adding DPAA2 Ethernet
	6	driver support, which depends on drivers for several objects: DPNI,
	7	DPIO, DPMAC. Other pre-requisites include:
	8
	9	* interrupt support. for meaningful driver support we need
	10	interrupts, and thus need message interrupt support by the bus
	11	driver.
	12	-Note: this has dependencies on generic MSI support work
	13	in process upstream, see [1] and [2].
	14
	15	* Management Complex (MC) command serialization. locking mechanisms
	16	are needed by drivers to serialize commands sent to the MC, including
	17	from atomic context.
	18
	19	* MC firmware uprev. The MC firmware upon which the fsl-mc
	20	bus driver and DPAA2 object drivers are based is continuing
	21	to evolve, so minor updates are needed to keep in sync with binary
	22	interface changes to the MC.
	23
	24	* Cleanup
31c88965	25
11dd0360 GR	26	Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	27	german.rivera@freescale.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	28	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
b2069165 SY	29
	30	[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/9/93
	31	[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/712