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fp@194: 
fp@194: EtherCAT master TODO
fp@194: 
fp@194: $Id$
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fp@669: * Issues for release 1.3.0:
fp@669:   - Take broadcast MAC address to register the first ethernet device.
fp@695:   - Handle missing rc_status in init script.
fp@669: 
fp@612: * Future features:
fp@612:   - Interface/buffers for asynchronous domain IO.
fp@557:   - Distributed clocks.
fp@695:   - Dynamic PDO mapping from SDO dictionary (see can-cia.org: cia301ds4).
fp@557:   - Redundancy with 2 network adapters.
fp@695:   - Mailbox handler
fp@695:   - Support slaves, that don't support the LRW datagram, only LRD/LWR.
fp@547: 
fp@612: * Smaller issues:
fp@636:   - Clear sync managers in INIT.
fp@557:   - Simplify FSMs with <state>_enter() functions.
fp@557:   - Output intermediate results during lsec.
fp@557:   - State change FSM: Follow spontaneous state changes.
fp@638:   - Read out CRC counters.
fp@638:   - Calculate expected working counter for domains.
fp@638:   - Optimize alignment of process data.
fp@638:   - Evaluate EEPROM contents after writing.
fp@638:   - SDO write access in sysfs.
fp@644:   - Configure slave ports to automatically open on link detection.
fp@644:   - Calculate cycle time of operation state machine.
fp@656:   - Locking for serveral slave variables for sysfs access.
fp@656:   - Interrupt master state machines state scan for other jobs.
fp@656:   - Master state machine, slave configuration: Do not check every slave on
fp@656:     a cycle.
fp@663:   - Do only execute one EoE handler per EoE cycle.
fp@547: 
fp@612: * Less important issues:
fp@557:   - Implement all EtherCAT datagram types.
fp@557:   - File access over EtherCAT (FoE).
fp@557:   - Allow VLAN tagging.
fp@557:   - Determine number of frames the NIC can handle.
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