TODO
author Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:15:25 +0000
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Allow only MAC addresses as device identifiers; replaced master list by
master array; hand ober MAC addresses with array module parameters.
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EtherCAT master TODO
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* Release 1.3:
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  - Remove addressing scheme "X:Y".
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  - Remove ugly ec_slave_is_coupler().
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  - Replace Vendor ID and product code arguments of ec_domain_register_pdo()
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    by slave pointer.
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  - Reset topology_change_pending on successful validation.
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  - Dynamic creation of EoE handlers.
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* Future features:
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  - Interface/buffers for asynchronous domain IO.
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  - Distributed clocks.
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  - Read dynamic PDO mapping from SDO dictionary (see can-cia.org: cia301ds4).
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  - Redundancy with 2 network adapters.
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* Smaller issues:
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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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  - State change FSM: Follow spontaneous state changes.
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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 dictionary and -access in operation mode.
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  - SDO write access in sysfs.
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  - Speed up IDLE state machine through fast mode with schedule().
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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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