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#
# <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.
#
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# 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...).
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