Skip to contentSkip to conversation

must-fix list, v5

DISCUSSION Arnd Bergmann 1 participant 1 message May 21, 2003

lore
Share & tools
lore
#0 lore raw

Here is a list of things we need to do on s390 for 2.6:

arch/s390/
~~~~~~~~~

o A nastly memory management problem causes random crashes. These appear to be fixed/hidden by the objrmap patch, more investigation is needed.

drivers/s390/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

o Early userspace and 64 bit dev_t will allow the removal of most of dasd_devmap.c and dasd_genhd.c.

o The 3270 console driver needs to be replaced with a working one (prototype is there, needs to be finished).

o Minor interface changes are pending in cio/ when the z990 machines are out.

There are some more things being worked on that are either post-2.6.0 or are likely to remain outside of the official kernel (i.e. not for your list):

o Jan Glauber is working on a fix for the timer issues related to running on virtualized CPUs (wall-clock vs. cpu time).

o new zfcp fibre channel driver

o the qeth driver will become GPL soon

o a block device driver for ramdisks shared among virtual machines

o driver for crypto hardware

o 'claw' network device driver

	Arnd <><