TODO
author Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:40:03 +0000
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Allow gaps in PDO mapping.
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* Future features:
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  - Distributed clocks.
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  - Redundancy with 2 network adapters.
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  - Mailbox handler
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  - Support slaves, that don't support the LRW datagram, only LRD/LWR.
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  - PDO reading in IDLE mode.
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  - Replace Sysfs interface with cdev and user space program.
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  - Interface/buffers for asynchronous domain IO.
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* Smaller issues:
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  - Datagram debugging flag.
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  - Clear sync managers in INIT.
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  - Simplify FSMs with <state>_enter() functions.
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  - Output intermediate results during lsec.
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  - Read out CRC counters.
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  - Calculate expected working counter for domains.
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  - Optimize alignment of process data.
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  - Evaluate EEPROM contents after writing.
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  - SDO write access in sysfs.
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  - Configure slave ports to automatically open on link detection.
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  - Calculate cycle time of operation state machine.
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  - Locking for serveral slave variables for sysfs access.
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  - Interrupt master state machines state scan for other jobs.
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  - Master state machine, slave configuration: Do not check every slave on
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    a cycle.
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  - Only execute one EoE handler per EoE cycle.
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* Less important issues:
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  - Implement all EtherCAT datagram types.
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  - File access over EtherCAT (FoE).
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  - Allow VLAN tagging.
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  - Determine number of frames, the NIC can handle.
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