source: rtems/c/PROBLEMS @ 37f4c2d

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Last change on this file since 37f4c2d was 4a6fa2ab, checked in by Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@…>, on 08/04/95 at 22:13:11

updaetd to remove UNIX simulator bugs

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5This is the list of outstanding problems in this release.
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7+   The m68000 support is not quite complete yet.  The missing piece
8    inside the executive proper is support for the software interrupt
9    stack.  Also, the m68k family has become quite large and an
10    understanding of the compatibility of the peripherals on the various
11    members of the 683xx family would allow someone to designate some
12    of the drivers submitted for the gen68302 BSP as useful on other
13    members.
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15+   The only i960 family member tested is the CA.  No support for the
16    floating point support found in other family members is present.
17    This also implies that RTEMS may "think" of something as generic
18    across the i960 family when in fact it is specific to the CA.
19
20+   The __read() system call in all of the BSPs using single
21    character input/output needs to be smarter.  The following
22    issues need to be addressed:
23
24       + echoing of characters on input
25       + CR/NL echoing
26       + backspaces
27       + tabs
28
29+   UNIX port notes:
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31       + sometimes a stray SIGALRM is reported as spfatal completes.
32
33       +  Currently the routines which need to make access to the
34          native library (not newlib) are spread across a number of
35          directories.  There should be a "unix_XYZ" wrapper for every
36          one of these routines so there is only 1 directory which directly
37          references the "real" native library.
38
39+   Some of the tests may execute correctly and not produce the exact
40    ordering of lines in the screen file.  This appears to be a combination
41    of a number of factors including buffering, processor speed, IO
42    device overhead, and clock interrupt rate.
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44+   The compiler configuration files (c/make/gcc-XYZ.cfg) are largely
45    the same when the different targets have the same CPU.  It would
46    be desirable to have a gcc-CPU.cfg or gcc-CPU_MODEL.cfg (e.g.
47    gcc-m68k.cfg or gcc-m68020.cfg) and have the file gcc-TARGET.cfg
48    include this and possibly override default settings.
49 
50+   The clock device drivers should really avoid doing the division
51    by 1000 in the clock tick ISR to convert microseconds into
52    milliseconds.  This only applies to clock drivers which generate
53    an ISR each millisecond and only call rtems_clock_tick every
54    so many ISRs.
55 
56+   The MP code for the Message Manager copies the message buffer
57    in and out of the MPCI packet at at least two unecessary times:
58 
59      + as part of some send requests
60      + on a non-successful receive response
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