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1$ NetBSD: TODO,v 1.10 2020/02/03 02:54:23 scole Exp $
2
3What works:
4  The ski simulator (pkgsrc/emulators/ski) is known to work on NetBSD
5  i386, amd64 and macppc. It "should" work on other archs as well.
6
7  Netbooting may work on some machines, basically you need to boot
8  diskless with the loader.efi (from src/sys/arch/ia64/stand/ia64/)
9  using dhcpd and put the kernel in a nfs accessible directory.  There
10  is info here https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/ and
11  http://gnats.netbsd.org/49717 about how to setup.
12
13  Also, a successful report of booting off the CD is here
14  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-ia64/2009/06/18/msg000102.html
15
16Tasks remaining:
17- context switching and forking appear unfinished,
18  vm_machdep.c::cpu_lwp_fork() appears incomplete
19- pmap module, imported from freebsd but still needs more work and testing
20- IA64 Stack unwind code: Support remaining unwind descriptor
21  types. (See arch/ia64/unwind/TODO). ddb() traces need to print line
22  information also.  Seems like there are a few options:
23   1) fix and finish current unwind that is minimal, incomplete, and buggy
24   2) import FreeBSD/ia64 implementation, may be derived from HP originally:
25      http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2016-September/050649.html
26   3) import this version
27      https://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/man/libunwind-ia64(3).html
28      originally written by one of ia64 gurus but still looks maintained
29      and portable
30   4) something else
31- redo _regset.h in netbsd style with __greg_t __gregset_t
32- implement ld.elf_so, MK_DYNAMICROOT
33- fix memory detection, on real hardware doesn't find all memory
34- implement interrupts (sacpi & pci)
35- MKGDB for ia64
36- implement fp[gs]etsticky, [make|get|set|swap]context
37- floating point, fenv functions were imported from freebsd, but only compile tested
38- implement core_machdep.c
39- implement __cloneS ptrace.S sbrk.S shmat.S
40- implement kvm_ia64.c
41- implement pmc (performance monitoring counters) for ia64 pmc registers
42- implement ia64 md code for cpuctl, intrctl as needed
43- optional(?) mutex.h/lock_stubs.S, mutex_enter()/mutex_exit() __HAVE_MUTEX_STUBS
44       mutex_spin_enter()/mutex_spin_exit() __HAVE_SPIN_MUTEX_STUBS
45- rwlock.h rw_enter(),rw_exit(),rw_tryenter() __HAVE_RW_STUBS, implemented already?
46- add efipart_dev to read gpt/ffs disks for bootloader
47- sort out bootloader/loader.efi stuff, make it more like netbsd and
48  less like freebsd, command to boot nfs from loader.efi instead of
49  hack that exists now
50- ia64 implement __HAVE_FAST_SOFTINTS?
51- want or need __HAVE_CPU_UAREA_ROUTINES, cpu_uarea_alloc,  cpu_uarea_free
52- fix all "[Nn]ot yet" and "XXX" functions everywhere
53- create/fix sys/arch/ia64/include/pci_machdep.h and implement actual functions,
54  need to handle "multiple" pci busses like from http://www.openpa.net/systems/il/rp3400-bus.txt,
55  add pchb, looks like one here
56   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-ia64/2010/06/29/msg000116.html
57  and/or could port from freebsd
58- Kernel module pre-loading via the bootloader
59- SMP
60- write console and/or X framebuffer driver.  freebsd has vgapci
61  device that may be portable
62- add ia32 emulation, port from freebsd
63- installation media for EFI/cdrom/usb
64
65ski emulator tasks:
66- some commands in ski are not yet implemented. 2 important ones
67  are still missing, "cstack" and "pm", which view the stack and
68  source code lines respectively
69- create a ski network driver
70- create a ski disk driver
71
72Pie in the sky:
73- Xen and itanium!
74- qemu and itanium
75