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@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +# +# <TODO> +# +# TODO list for Open Hack'Ware. +# +# Copyright (C) 2005 Jocelyn Mayer (l_indien@magic.fr) +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License V2 +# as published by the Free Software Foundation +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA +# + +This TODO list is still quite unordered. +Any other ideas are welcome. + +* Features needed for 0.5 release: + - 2.6 Linux kernel boot for PMac & PREP targets + - 2.2 Linux kernel boot for PMac & PREP targets + +* Features needed for 1.0 release: + - Mac OS X boot for PMac target + - Mac OS 9 boot for PMac target + - NetBSD boot for PMac & PREP targets + - OpenBSD boot for PMac & PREP targets + - AIX boot for PREP target + - Windows NT boot for PREP target + - user should be able to tune the boot process: + x choose boot partition + x give special arguments to the bootloader + +* Short term fixes: + - ASAP: as soon as qemu floppy work again, check floppy boot process. + - 2.6 kernel boot. + - OSX / Darwin boot + - video output is mostly broken for PREP target + (reported by Bruce Beare (bbeare) <bbeare@cisco.com>) + +* Fixes: + - fix the OF tree. + - fix the bootinfos (seem buggy and are incomplete) + - check why OF_blockdev_set_boot_device may be called more than once. + +* Features to be tested: + - PEF loader + +* New features: + - User prompt is needed when multiple bootable partitions are found. + - in libfs + x ext2 support + x isofs support + x more filesystems ? + - in libpart + x Fix IBM PREP CDROMs boot for AIX & WinNT for PREP + x add more partition mappings (BSD slices and ?) + - in libexec + x Windows NT xcoff support (code exists but is to be merged and tested) + x Add dynamic linker (needed to boot Apple hardware check CDROMs) + - new libfilter: + x compression & encryption (gzip for OpenBSD boot, ...). + - in libc + x Add missing string and memory functions + x Add filename/URL manipulation routines (canonicalize, ...) + x nls support (code exists but isn't merged). + x Add hashed objects support with special cases for strings & unicode strings + (code exists, need to be tested and integrated). + - New architectures support (generic CHRP, MVME, pegasos, ...). + To be coordinated with Qemu improvments. + +* Future direction for OpenHackWare: + - Improve code split & structuration: + x split all device drivers + x make OF interface _really_ optional: currently, some devices won't be + registered/initialized if OF is not present. + For this to be, we should have an internal representation for all devices + and OF should become just an interface to this internal tree. + - Improve memory management. + - Add unitary tests for most library functions + - Improve exception vectors + - Add virtual devices support for RTAS (virtual SCSI & ethernet) + (preliminary code exists but is far from being usable). + - Use unicode for internal strings (UTF-8 or UTF-32 ?). + - Improve build system (current one is really ugly). + - Real forth support (preliminary code exists...). + - Accurate terminal emulation (some code exists). + - Add a generic device cache (related to improved memory management...). |