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    NuttX TODO List (Last updated December 13, 2007)
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      (6)  Task/Scheduler (sched/)
      (2)  Memory Managment (mm/)
      (1)  Signals (sched/, arch/)
      (1)  pthreads (sched/)
      (1)  C++ Support
      (10) Network (net/, netutils/)
      (2)  USB (drivers/usbdev)
      (2)  Libraries (lib/)
      (2)  File system (fs/, drivers/)
      (2)  Documentation (Documentation/)
      (3)  Build system
      (0)  Applications & Tests (examples/)
      (1)  ARM (arch/arm/)
      (0)  ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
      (1)  ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
      (2)  ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
      (3)  pjrc-8052 / MCS51 (arch/pjrc-8051/)
    
    
    o Task/Scheduler (sched/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: When a tasks exits, shouldn't all of its child pthreads also be
                   terminated?
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, required for good emulation of process/pthread model.
    
      Description: atexit() supports registration of one function called on exit().
                   Should task_delete() also cause atexit() function to be called?
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, task_delete() is non-standard and its behavior is
                   unspecified.
    
      Description: Implement sys/mman.h and functions
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Implement sys/wait.h and functions.  Consider implementing wait,
                   waitpid, waitid.  At present, a parent has no information about
                   child tasks.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Implement priority inheritance
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, this is a good feature for realtime systems.
    
      Description: Several APIs do not set errno.  Need to review all APIs.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, required for standard compliance (but makes the
                   code bigger)
    
    o Memory Managment (mm/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Add an option to free all memory allocated by a task when the
                   task exits. This is probably not be worth the overhead for a
                   deeply embedded system.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium/Low, a good feature to prevent memory leaks but would
                   have negative impact on memory usage and code size.
    
      Description: Current logic adapts size_t for 16-bit address machines vs.
                   32-bit address machines.  But a small memory option should also
                   be provided so that the small offset option can be used with
                   32-bit machines that have small RAM memories (like the lpc2148)
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High, a good feature enhancement.
    
    o Signals (sched/, arch/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: 'Standard' signals and signal actions are not supported.
                   (e.g., SIGINT, SIGCHLD, SIGSEGV, etc).
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, required by standards but not so critical for an
                   embedded system.
    
    o pthreads (sched/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: pthread_cancel():  Should implement cancellation points and
                   pthread_testcancel()
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, probably not that useful
    
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    o C++ Support
    
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      ^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Need to call static constructors
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, depends on toolchain.  Call to gcc's built-in static
                   constructor logic will probably have to be performed by
                   user logic in user_start().
    
    o Network (net/, netutils/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Several of the netutils/ apps are untested.  These include
                   uIP's netutils/smtp, dhcpd, resolv, webclient.  Only minimal
                   testing of the others has been performed.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, Important but not core NuttX functionality
    
      Description: Should implement SOCK_RAW, SOCK_PACKET
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: uIP polling issues / Multiple network interface support:
                   (1) Current logic will not support multiple ethernet drivers.
                      Each driver should poll on TCP connections connect on the
                      network supported by the driver; UDP polling should respond
                      with TX data only if the UDP packet is intended for the
                      the network supported by the driver.
                   (2) If there were multiple drivers, polling would occur at
                      double the rate.  Fix by using bound IP address in TCP
                      connection (lipaddr) and verifying that it is in the subnet
                      served by the driver.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
                   for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
    
      Description: Sendoto() and multiple network interface support:
                   When polled, would have to assure that the destination IP
                   is on the subnet served by the polling driver.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, The feature is not important, but it is important
                   for NuttX to resolve the architectural issues.
    
      Description: uIP/Socket callback logic is not thread safe. This means that
                   a socket cannot be used concurrently by two threads.  Minimal
                   fix:  Add mutex to support exclusion for protection.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low.  The currently socket design cannot be use concurrently
                   by threads with out a major redesign.  The feature is not
                   of great value since the use model for multi-thread sockets
                   is not common.  Adding mutex support would only mask the
                   underlying issue.
    
      Description: IPv6 support is incomplete
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
      Description: Incoming UDP broadcast should only be accepted if listening on
                   INADDR_ANY(?)
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Read-ahead buffers capture incoming TCP data when no user
                   thread is recv-ing the data.  Should add some driver call to
                   support throttling; when there is no listener for new data, the
                   driver should be throttled.  Perhaps the driver should disable
                   RX interrupts when throttled and re-anable on each poll time.
                   recvfrom would, of course, have to un-throttle.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
      Description: Need to standardize collection of statistics from network
                   drivers.  examples/nsh ifconfig command should present
                   statistics.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Outgoing packets are dropped and overwritten by ARP packets
                   if the destination IP has not been mapped to a MAC.  Could
                   improve send() performance by explicitly performing ARP before
                   sending the packet.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    o USB (drivers/usbdev)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Implement USB device support
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
      Description: Implement USB bulk / serial device support
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
    o Libraries (lib/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: sscanf() and lib_vsprintf() do not support floating point
                   values.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: The definition of environ in stdlib.h is bogus and will not
                   work as it should.  This is because the underlying
                   representation of the environment is not an arry of pointers.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Mediam
    
    o File system (fs/, drivers/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Add chmod(), truncate().
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: FAT32: long file names
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    o Documentation (Documentation/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Document driver/ logic
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Document C-library APIs
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
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    o Build system
    
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      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Some names under arch are still incorrect.  These should be
                   processor architecture names:  pjrc-8051 should be 805x
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: configs/pjrc-8051 should be configs/pjrc-87c52
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Dependencies do not work correctly under configs/<board>/src
                   (same as arch/<arch>/src/board).
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    o Applications & Tests (examples/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    o ARM (arch/arm/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Add option to use a separate stack for interrupt handling.  At
                   present, each interrupt executes on top of the user stack
                   allocation making each user stack allocation larger than needed.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medim
    
    o ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    o ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: config/ntos-dm320: It seems that when a lot of debug statements
                   are added, the system no longer boots.  This is suspected to be
                   a stack problem: Making the stack bigger or removing arrays on
                   the stack seems to fix the problem (might also be the
                   bootloader overwriting memory)
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Mediam
    
    o ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Finish bringup
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
      Description: Add MMC and USB support
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Mediam
    
    o pjrc-8052 / MCS51 (arch/pjrc-8051/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Current status:
                   - Basic OS task management seems OK
                   - Fails when interrupts enabled.  The stack pointer is around
                     0x6e before the failure occurs.  It looks like some issue
                     when the stack pointer moves from the directly to indirectly
                     addressable region (0x80 boundary).
                   - Work on the 8052 is temporarily on hold
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, 8051 is a tough platform because of the tiny stack.
    
      Description: Use timer 0 as system timer.  Timer 2 is needed for second UART.
                   Logic is implemented, but there needs to be a system
                   configuration to change the ticks-per-second value to match the
                   timer interrupt rate
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: During build, there are several integer overflows reported:
                   gmtime_r.c aroud lines 184 and 185
                   clock_initialize.c at line 107
                   pthread_create.c at 330
                   sighand.c at 225 and 244
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium