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    NuttX TODO List (Last updated April 12, 2009)
    
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
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      (6)  Task/Scheduler (sched/)
    
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      (1)  Dynamic loader (N/A)
    
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      (2)  Memory Managment (mm/)
      (1)  Signals (sched/, arch/)
      (1)  pthreads (sched/)
      (1)  C++ Support
    
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     (12)  Network (net/, netutils/)
    
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      (1)  USB (drivers/usbdev)
    
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      (4)  Libraries (lib/)
    
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      (7)  File system/Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
    
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      (2)  Graphics subystem (graphics/)
    
      (1)  Pascal add-on (pcode/)
    
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      (0)  Documentation (Documentation/)
    
      (5)  Build system / Toolchains
    
      (2)  NuttShell (NSH) (examples/nsh)
    
      (3)  Other Applications & Tests (examples/)
    
      (1)  Linux/Cywgin simulation (arch/sim)
    
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      (2)  ARM (arch/arm/)
    
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      (1)  ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
    
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      (3)  ARM/DM320 (arch/arm/src/dm320/)
    
      (2)  ARM/i.MX (arch/arm/src/imx/)
    
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      (8)  ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
    
      (4)  ARM/STR71x (arch/arm/src/str71x/)
    
      (1)  ARM/LM3S6918 (arch/arm/src/lm3s/)
    
      (4)  pjrc-8052 / MCS51 (arch/pjrc-8051/)
    
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      (2)  Hitachi/Renesas SH-1 (arch/sh/src/sh1)
      (4)  Renesas M16C/26 (arch/sh/src/m16c)
    
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      (8)  z80/z8/ez80 (arch/z80/)
    
      (8)  z16 (arch/z16/)
    
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    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: Several APIs do not set errno.  Need to review all APIs.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, required for standard compliance (but makes the
                   code bigger)
    
    
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      Description: socket descriptors are not cloned as are file descriptors
                   by task_create().
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium-to-High
    
    
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    o Dynamic Loader
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: At some point in the future, I intend to port the XFLAT
                   dynamic loader into NuttX (see http://xflat.sourceforge.net/).
                   That would allow NuttX to dynamically load and link
                   external code in a mounted filesystem.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, Nice feature and I might do it someday
    
    
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    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: One critical part of netutils/ apps is untested: The uIP
                   resolver in netutils/resolv.  The webclient code has been
                   tested on host using gethosbyname(), but still depends on the
                   untested resolve logic.
    
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      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.
    
    
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      Description: IPv6 support is incomplete.  Adam Dunkels has recently announced
                   IPv6 support for uIP (currently only as part of Contiki).  Those
                   changes need to be ported to NuttX.
    
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      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
    
    
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      Description: Port PPP support from http://contiki.cvs.sourceforge.net/contiki/contiki-2.x/backyard/core/net/ppp/
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
      Description: At present, there cannot be two concurrent active TCP send
    
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                   operations in progress using the same socket.  This is because
                   the uIP ACK logic will support only one transfer at a time.  The
                   solution is simple: A mutex will be needed to make sure that each 
                   send that is started is able to be the exclusive sender until all of
                   the data to be sent has been ACKed.
    
      Status:      Open.  There is some temporary logic to examples/nsh that does
                   this same fix and that temporary logic should be removed when
                   send() is fixed.
      Priority:    Medium-Low.  This is an important issue for applications that
                   send on the same TCP socket from multiple threads.
    
    
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      Description: TCP supports read-ahead buffering to handle the receipt of
                   TCP/IP packets when there is no read() in place.  Should such
                   capability be useful for UDP?  PRO: Would reduce packet loss
                   and enable support for poll()/select().  CON: UDP is inherently
                   lossy so why waste memory footprint?
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: poll()/select() is not implemented for UDP sockets because they do
    
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                   do not support read-ahead buffering.  Therefore, there is never
                   a case where you can read from a UDP socket without blocking.
      Status:      Open, depends on UDP read-ahead support
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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    o USB (drivers/usbdev)
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      Description: The USB bulk storage class driver configuration (examples/usbstorage)
                   does not work reliably when debug is disabled (CONFIG_DEBUG+CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE
    
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                   +CONFIG_DEBUG_USB) on WinXP (Linux appears to be fine).  A race condition would
                   would be a possibility.  The symptom is that that WinXP sends a MODE SENSE (6)
                   command with an unsupported mode page (0x1c/0x00)
    
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      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
    
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      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: fgets implementation does not use C-buffered I/O, but rather
                   talks to serial driver directly via read().  It includes VT-100
                   specific editting commands.  This gets should be renamed readlin()
                   and a more generic fgets() should be implemented.
    
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      Status:      Open
    
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      Priority:    Low (unless you are using mixed C-buffered I/O with fgets and
                   fgetc, for example).
    
      Description: Need some minimal termios support... at a minimum, enough to
                   switch between raw and "normal" modes to support behavior like
                   that needed for readline().
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
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    o File system / Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
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      Description: Implement chmod(), truncate().
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: FAT: long file names
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
      Description: The CAN driver is untested.  Add a test for the CAN driver.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
      Description: At present, the CAN driver does not support the poll() method.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: There is no way to remove a FIFO or PIPE created in the
                   psuedo filesystem.  Once created, they persist indefinitely
    
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                   and cannot be unlinked.  This is actually a more generic
                   issue:  unlink does not work for anything in the psuedo-
                   filesystem.
      Status:      Open, but partially resolved: pipe buffer is at least freed
                   when there are not open references to the pipe/FIFO.
    
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      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: The ROMFS file system does not verify checksums on either
                   volume header on on the individual files.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low.  I have mixed feelings about if NuttX should pay a
                   performance penalty for better data integrity.
    
    
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      Description: The simple SPI based MMCS/SD driver in fs/mmcsd does not
                   yet handle multiple block transfers.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium-Low
    
    
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    o Graphics subystem (graphics/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: If CONFIG_NX is enabled, the build fails the first time
                   saying that there is "No rule to make target..." for one of the
                   auto-generated graphics files.  This is a nuisance, but if you
                   simply build again (with the source files already auto-generated)
                   the problem does not reoccur.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, the work-around is simple
    
      Description: Testing of all APIs is not complete.  See
                   http://nuttx.sourceforge.net/NXGraphicsSubsystem.html#testcoverage
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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    o Pascal Add-On (pcode/)
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      Description: Need APIs to verify execution of P-Code from memory buffer.
      Status:      Open
    
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      Priority:    Low
    
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      Description: Loader and object format may be too large for some small
                   memory systems.  Consider ways to reduce memory footprint.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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    o Documentation (Documentation/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
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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
    
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                   (same as arch/<arch>/src/board).
    
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      Status:      Open
    
      Priority:    Medium (maybe higher for z80 target)
    
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      Description: It would be nice to de-couple some of the behaviors enabled by
                   CONFIG_DEBUG.  For example, CONFIG_DEBUG turns on debug output,
                   but also disables optimization make the binary much bigger.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low.  There workaround is easy.. just edit the configuration's
    
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                   Make.def file to control the behavior that you want.
    
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      Description: Need a NuttX configuration tool.  The number of configuration
                   settings has become quite large and difficult to manage manually.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium-low
    
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    o NuttShell (NSH) (examples/nsh)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: When the telnetd front end is received, each TCP packet
                   received causes a prompt (nsh >) to be presented.  The
                   prompt should only be presented when the user enters a
                   carriage return.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: The wget command has been incorporated into NSH, however
                   it is still untested as of this writing (only because I
                   have not had the correct network setup for the testing
                   yet).  Since wget depends on the also untest uIP resolv/
                   logic, it is like non-functional.
    
      Status:      Open
    
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      Priority:    Med-High
    
    
    o Other Applications & Tests (examples/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: The redirection test (part of examples/pipe) terminates
                   incorrectly on the Cywgin-based simulation platform (but works
                   fine on the Linux-based simulation platform).
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: examples/wget is untested on the target (it has been tested
                   on the host, but not in the target using the uIP resolv logic).
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Med
    
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      Description: examples/sendmail is untested on the target (it has been tested
                   on the host, but not on the target.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Med
    
    
    
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    o Linux/Cywgin simulation (arch/sim)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
      Description: The simulated serial driver has some odd behavior.  It
    
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                   will stall for a long time on reads when the C stdio buffers are
                   being refilled. This only effects the behavior of things like
                   fgetc().  Workaround: Set CONFIG_STDIO_BUFFER_SIZE=0, suppressing
                   all C buffered I/O.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low (because the simulator is only a test/development platform)
    
    
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    o ARM (arch/arm/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
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      Description: ARM interrupt handling performance could be improved in many
                   ways.  One easy way is to use a pointer to the context save
                   area in current_regs instead of using up_copystate so much.
                   see handling of 'current_regs" in arch/sh/src/common/* for
                   examples of how this might be done.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: The ARM interrupt handler restores all regisers upon return.
                   This could be improved as well:  If there is not context
                   switch, then the static registers need not be restored
                   because they will not be modified by the called C code.
                   (see arch/sh/src/sh1/sh1_vector.S for example)
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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    o ARM/C5471 (arch/arm/src/c5471/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
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      Description: UART re-configuration is untested and conditionally compiled out.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium.  ttyS1 is not configured, but not used; ttyS0 is configured
                   by the bootloader
    
    
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    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
    
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      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: A USB device controller driver was added but has never been tested.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: A framebuffer "driver" was added, however, it remains untested.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
      Description: In order to use the framebuffer "driver" additional video encoder
                   logic is required to setupt composite video output or to interface
                   with an LCD.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium (high if you need to use the framebuffer driver)
    
    
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    o ARM/i.MX (arch/arm/src/imx/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: The basic port of the i.MX1 architecuture is underway.  The port
                   is incomplete (as of this writing, is still lacks a timer, interrupt
                   decoding, USB, network) and untested.
      Status:      Open (and in work)
      Priority:    Medium (high if you need i.MX1/L support)
    
    
      Description: SPI methods are not thread safe.  Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
    
    
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    o ARM/LPC214x (arch/arm/src/lpc214x/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
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      Description: Should use Vector Interrupts
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: USB DMA not fully implemented. Partial logic is in place but it is
                   fragmentary and bogus.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
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      Description: USB Serial Driver reports wrong error when opened before the
                   USB is connected (reports EBADF instead of ENOTCONN)
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: The USB bulk storage class driver configuration (examples/usbstorage)
                   does not work reliably when debug is disabled (CONFIG_DEBUG+CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE
    
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                   +CONFIG_DEBUG_USB) on WinXP (Linux appears to be fine).  A race condition would
                   would be a possibility.  The symptom is that that WinXP sends a MODE SENSE (6)
                   command with an unsupported mode page (0x1c/0x00)
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
      Description: At present the SPI driver is polled.  Should it be interrupt driven?
    
                   Look at arch/arm/src/imx/imx_spi.c -- that is a good example of an
                   interrupt driven SPI driver.  Should be very easy to part that architecture
                   to the LPC.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
      Description: SPI methods are not thread safe.  Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
    
    
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      Description: At present the SPI driver is polled -AND- there is a rather large, arbitrary,
                   delay in one of the block access routines.  The purpose of the delay is to
                   avoid a race conditions.  This begs for a re-design -OR- at a minimum, some
                   optimiation of the delay time.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Desription:  I am unable to initialize a 2Gb SanDisk microSD card (in adaptor) on the
                   the mcu123 board.  The card fails to accept CMD0.  Doesn't seem like a software
                   issue, but if anyone else sees the problem, I'd like to know.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Uncertain
    
    
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    o ARM/STR71x (arch/arm/src/str71x/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Basic port is complete but untested.  Complete integration
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
      Description: Add SPI driver and integrate with MMC/SD support.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
      Description: Develop a USB driver and integrate with existing USB serial
                   and storage class drivers.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
      Description: SPI methods are not thread safe.  Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
    
    
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    o ARM/LM3S6918 (arch/arm/src/lm3s/)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
    
      Description: Still need to implement I2C
    
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      Status:      Open
    
      Priority:    Low
    
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      Description: Should terminate SSI/SPI transfer if an Rx FIFO overrun occurs.
                   Right now, if an Rx FIFO overrun occurs, the SSI driver hangs.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium, If the transfer is properly tuned, then there should not
                   be any Rx FIFO overruns.
    
    
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    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:
    
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                   sched/gmtime_r.c aroud lines 184 and 185
                   sched/clock_initialize.c at line 107
                   sched/pthread_create.c at 330
                   examples/ostest/barrier.c around lines 53 and 74
                   examples/ostest/sighand.c at 225 and 244
    
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                   driver/serial.c in usleep calls around 347 and 354
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
      Description  Global data is not being initialized.  Logic like that of SDCCs
                   crt0*.s needs to be incorporated into the system boot logic
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low -- only because there as so many other issues with 8051
    
    
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    o Hitachi/Renesas SH-1 (arch/sh/src/sh1)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
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      Description:  There are instabilities that make the SH-1 port un-usable.  The
                    nature of these is not understood; the behavior is that certain SH-1
                    instructions stop working as advertised.  I have seen the following
                    examples:
    
                      412b jmp @r1 - Set a return address in PR, i.e., it behaved like
                           410b jsr @r1.  Normally 412b works correctly, but in the failure
                           condition, it reliably set the PR.
                      69F6 mov.l @r15+,r9 - wrote the value of R1 to @r15+.  This behavior
                           does not correspond to any known SH-1 instruction
    
                    This could be a silicon problem, some pipeline issue that is not
                    handled properly by the gcc 3.4.5 toolchain (which has very limit
                    SH-1 support to begin with), or perhaps with the CMON debugger.  At
                    any rate, I have exhausted all of the energy that I am willing to put
                    into this cool old processor for the time being.
      Status:       Open
      Priority:     Low -- because the SH-1, SH7032, is very old and only of historical
                    interest.
    
    
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      Description:  arch/sh has been restructured to support M16C.  Need to verify that
                    SH-1 still builds.
      Status:       Open
      Priority:     Low
    
      Description:  The M16C target cannot be built.  The GNU m16c-elf-ld link fails with 
                    the following message:
    
                    m32c-elf-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.19 assertion fail /home/Owner/projects/nuttx/buildroot/toolchain_build_m32c/binutils-2.19/bfd/elf32-m32c.c:482
    
                    Where the reference line is:
    
                    /* If the symbol is out of range for a 16-bit address,
                       we must have allocated a plt entry.  */
                    BFD_ASSERT (*plt_offset != (bfd_vma) -1);
    
                    No workaround is known at this time.
      Status:       Open
      Priority:     High -- this is a show stopper for M16C.
    
    
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    o Renesas M16C/26 (arch/sh/src/m16c)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: Coding of the initial port is complete, but is untested.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
      Description: Serial drivers were developed for the M16C, however, the SKP16C26
    
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                   StarterKit has no serial connectors.
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: Should implement SPI, I2C, Virual EEPROM, FLASH, RTC drivers
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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    o z80/z8/ez80 (arch/z80)
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: The SDCC version the same problems with interger overflow during
                   compilation as described for pjrc-8051.  At typical cause is code like
    
                   usleep(500*1000) which exceeds the range of a 16-bit integer
      Status:      See pjrc-8051
      Priority:    See pjrc-8051
    
    
      Description: The simulated Z80 serial console (configs/z80sim/src/z80_serial.c +
    
                   driver/serial.c) does not work.  This is because there are
                   no interrupts in the simulation so there is never any serial
                   traffic.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low -- the simulated console is not critical path and the designs
                   to solve the problem are complex.
    
    
      Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
                   is not in the library.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low, thought to be cosmetic.  I think this is a consequence of
                   replacing vs. inserting the library.
    
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      Description: The ZDS-II compiler (version 4.10.1) fails with an internal error
                   while compiler mm/mm_initialize.  This has been reported as
                   incident 81509.
    
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                   I have found the following workaround that I use to build for the
                   time being:
    
                   --- mm/mm_initialize.c.SAVE	2008-02-13 08:06:46.833857700 -0600
                   +++ mm/mm_initialize.c	2008-02-13 08:07:26.367608900 -0600
                   @@ -94,8 +94,11 @@
                   {
                      int i;
    
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                   +#if 0 /* DO NOT CHECK IN */
                      CHECK_ALLOCNODE_SIZE;
                      CHECK_FREENODE_SIZE;
                   +#endif
    
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                   /* Set up global variables */
    
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      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High
    
      Description: Add support for prioritized ez8 interrupts.  Currently logic supports
                   only nominal interrupt priority.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
      Description: The z8Encore! port has only been verified on the ZDS-II instruction
                   set simulator.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium
    
    
      Description: Upgrade to the ZDS-II Z8Encore! 4.11.0 toolchain
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
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      Description: The XTRS target (configs/xtrs) has a clean problem. The clean
                   rule removes .asm files.  This works because there are no .asm
                   files except in sub-directories that are provided from 'make clean' --
                   except for XTRS:  It has a .asm file in its src/ directory that
                   gets removed everytime clean is performd.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    High if you happen to be working with XTRS.
    
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      Description: A "generic" SPI and I2C drivers have been coded for the eZ80Acclaim!
                   However, these remains untested since I have no SPI or I2C devices for
                   the board (yet).
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Med
    
    
      Description: SPI methods are not thread safe.  Needs a semaphore to protect from re-entrancy.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium -- Will be very high if you do SPI access from multiple threads.
    
    
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      Description: A "generic" I2C driver has been coded for the eZ8Encore!
                   However, this remains untested since I have no I2C devices for
    
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                   the board (yet).
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Med
    
    
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    
      Description: ZDS-II Librarian complains that the source for the .obj file
                   is not in the library.
      Status:      Open
    
      Priority:    Low, thought to be cosmetic.  I think this is a consequence of
                   replacing vs. inserting the library.
    
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      Description: When the interrupt-driven serial driver is used, the system
                   hangs.  This is because of TX ready (TRDE) interrupts that
                   get lost while interrupts are disabled.  The existing
                   serial driver appears to be limited to hardware with a
                   latching, level-sensitive TX ready interrupt.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Medium. A polled, write-only serial driver is used in the
                   interim for system testing.
    
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      Description: The system delays do not appear to be correct with the
                   examples/ostest/timedmqueue.c test.
    
      Status:      Open
    
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      Priority:    Medium-High
    
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      Description: At present, the z16f port does not run properly when CONFIG_DEBUG
    
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                   is disabled:  The obvious symptom is that there is no printf()
                   output.  I have isolated with problem to errors in optimization.
                   With -reduceopt on the command line, I can get the printf output.
                   However, there are still errors in the compiled code -- specifically
                   in sched/timer_create.c.
    
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                   I have submitted a bug report to ZiLOG for this (support incident
                   81400).  You can see the status of the bug report (and lots more
                   technical detail) here:
                   http://support.zilog.com/support/incident/incident_support.asp?iIncidentId=81400&iSiteId=1&chLanguageCode=ENG
    
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                   Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO compiler problem. ... [a] workaround
                   is to replace:
                       if ( !timerid || (clockid != 0) )
                    By:
                       if ((clockid != 0) || !timerid)"
    
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      Status:      Open
    
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      Priority:    Medium-High
    
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      Description: The pascal add-on does not work with the z16f (that is
                   configuration z16f2800100zcog/pashello).  This appears to be
                   another ZDS-II error:  when executing the instruction
                   SYSIO 0, WRITESTR a large case statement is executed.  This
                   involves a call into the ZiLOG runtime library to __uwcase().
                   __uwcase is passed a pointer to a structure containing jump
                   information.  The cause of the failure appears to be that
                   the referenced switch data is bad.
                   This is submited as ZiLOG support incident 81459.
    
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                   Summary of ZiLOG analysis: "This is a ZNEO run time library problem.
                   One workaround is to replace the line 58 in uwcase.asm
    
                   From:
                          ADD       R9,#4             ; Skip handler
                   To:
                          ADD       R9,#2             ; Skip handler
    
                   And add uwcase.asm to the project.
    
                   If the customer does not want to modify uwcase.asm then the other
                   workaround is to add a dummy case and make it same as default:
    
                   case 0x8000:
                   default:
    
                   This will make sure that uwcase is not called but ulcase is called."
    
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      Status:      Open.  Due to licensing issues, I cannot include the modified
                   uwcase in the NuttX code base.
    
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      Priority:    Medium
    
    
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      Description: Add support to maintain SPOV in context switching.  This
                   improvement will provide protection against stack overflow
                   and make a safer system solution.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
      Description: Add support for prioritized interrupts.  Currently logic supports
                   only nominal interrupt priority.
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low
    
    
      Description: Upgrade to the ZDS-II ZNEO 4.11.1 toolchain
      Status:      Open
      Priority:    Low