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1	Release Date    : Sat. Feb 9, 2013 17:00:00 PST 2013 -
2				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
3				Adam Radford
4	Current Version : 06.506.00.00-rc1
5	Old Version     : 06.504.01.00-rc1
6	    1. Add 4k FastPath DIF support.
7	    2. Dont load DevHandle unless FastPath enabled.
8	    3. Version and Changelog update.
9	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10	Release Date    : Mon. Oct 1, 2012 17:00:00 PST 2012 -
11				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
12				Adam Radford
13	Current Version : 06.504.01.00-rc1
14	Old Version     : 00.00.06.18-rc1
15	    1. Removed un-needed completion_lock spinlock calls.
16	    2. Add module param for configurable MSI-X vector count.
17	    3. Load io_request DataLength in bytes.
18	    4. Add array boundary check for SystemPD.
19	    5. Add SystemPD FastPath support.
20	    6. Remove duplicate code.
21	    7. Version, Changelog, Copyright update.
22	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
23	Release Date    : Tue. Jun 17, 2012 17:00:00 PST 2012 -
24				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
25				Adam Radford/Kashyap Desai
26	Current Version : 00.00.06.18-rc1
27	Old Version     : 00.00.06.15-rc1
28	    1. Fix Copyright dates.
29	    2. Add throttlequeuedepth module parameter.
30	    3. Add resetwaittime module parameter.
31	    4. Move poll_aen_lock initializer.
32	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
33	Release Date    : Mon. Mar 19, 2012 17:00:00 PST 2012 -
34				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
35				Adam Radford
36	Current Version : 00.00.06.15-rc1
37	Old Version     : 00.00.06.14-rc1
38	    1. Optimize HostMSIxVectors setting.
39	    2. Add fpRead/WriteCapable, fpRead/WriteAcrossStripe checks.
40	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
41	Release Date    : Fri. Jan 6, 2012 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
42				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
43				Adam Radford
44	Current Version : 00.00.06.14-rc1
45	Old Version     : 00.00.06.12-rc1
46	    1. Fix reglockFlags for degraded raid5/6 for MR 9360/9380.
47	    2. Mask off flags in ioctl path to prevent memory scribble with older
48	       MegaCLI versions.
49	    3. Remove poll_mode_io module paramater, sysfs node, and associated code.
50	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
51	Release Date    : Wed. Oct 5, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
52				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
53				Adam Radford
54	Current Version : 00.00.06.12-rc1
55	Old Version     : 00.00.05.40-rc1
56	    1. Continue booting immediately if FW in FAULT at driver load time.
57	    2. Increase default cmds per lun to 256.
58	    3. Fix mismatch in megasas_reset_fusion() mutex lock-unlock.
59	    4. Remove some un-necessary code.
60	    5. Clear state change interrupts for Fusion/Invader.
61	    6. Clear FUSION_IN_RESET before enabling interrupts.
62	    7. Add support for MegaRAID 9360/9380 12GB/s controllers.
63	    8. Add multiple MSI-X vector/multiple reply queue support.
64	    9. Add driver workaround for PERC5/1068 kdump kernel panic.
65	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
66	Release Date    : Tue. Jul 26, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
67				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
68				Adam Radford
69	Current Version : 00.00.05.40-rc1
70	Old Version     : 00.00.05.38-rc1
71	    1. Fix FastPath I/O to work with degraded RAID 1.
72	    2. Add .change_queue_depth support.
73	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
74	Release Date    : Wed. May 11, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
75				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
76				Adam Radford
77	Current Version : 00.00.05.38-rc1
78	Old Version     : 00.00.05.34-rc1
79	    1. Remove MSI-X black list, use MFI_REG_STATE.ready.msiEnable.
80	    2. Remove un-used function megasas_return_cmd_for_smid().
81	    3. Check MFI_REG_STATE.fault.resetAdapter in megasas_reset_fusion().
82	    4. Disable interrupts/free_irq() in megasas_shutdown().
83	    5. Fix bug where AENs could be lost in probe() and resume().
84	    6. Convert 6,10,12 byte CDB's to 16 byte CDB for large LBA's for FastPath
85	       IO.
86	    7. Add 1078 OCR support.
87	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
88	Release Date    : Thu. Feb 24, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
89				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
90				Adam Radford
91	Current Version : 00.00.05.34-rc1
92	Old Version     : 00.00.05.29-rc1
93	    1. Fix some failure gotos from megasas_probe_one(), etc.
94	    2. Add missing check_and_restore_queue_depth() call in
95	       complete_cmd_fusion().
96	    3. Enable MSI-X before calling megasas_init_fw().
97	    4. Call tasklet_schedule() even if outbound_intr_status == 0 for MFI based
98	       boards in MSI-X mode.
99	    5. Fix megasas_probe_one() to clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE in msi control
100	       register in kdump kernel.
101	    6. Fix megasas_get_cmd() to only print "Command pool empty" if
102	       megasas_dbg_lvl is set.
103	    7. Fix megasas_build_dcdb_fusion() to not filter by TYPE_DISK.
104	    8. Fix megasas_build_dcdb_fusion() to use io_request->LUN[1] field.
105	    9. Add MR_EVT_CFG_CLEARED to megasas_aen_polling().
106	    10. Fix tasklet_init() in megasas_init_fw() to use instancet->tasklet.
107	    11. Fix fault state handling in megasas_transition_to_ready().
108	    12. Fix max_sectors setting for IEEE SGL's.
109	    13. Fix iMR OCR support to work correctly.
110	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
111	Release Date    : Tues.  Dec 14, 2010 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
112				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
113				Adam Radford
114	Current Version : 00.00.05.29-rc1
115	Old Version     : 00.00.04.31-rc1
116	    1. Rename megaraid_sas.c to megaraid_sas_base.c.
117	    2. Update GPL headers.
118	    3. Add MSI-X support and 'msix_disable' module parameter.
119	    4. Use lowest memory bar (for SR-IOV VF support).
120	    5. Add struct megasas_instance_temlate changes, and change all code to use
121	       new instance entries:
122	
123	       irqreturn_t (*service_isr )(int irq, void *devp);
124	       void (*tasklet)(unsigned long);
125	       u32 (*init_adapter)(struct megasas_instance *);
126	       u32 (*build_and_issue_cmd) (struct megasas_instance *,
127	       struct scsi_cmnd *);
128	       void (*issue_dcmd) (struct megasas_instance *instance,
129	                              struct megasas_cmd *cmd);
130	
131	   6. Add code to support MegaRAID 9265/9285 controllers device id (0x5b).
132	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
133	1 Release Date    : Thur.  May 03, 2010 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
134				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
135				Bo Yang
136	
137	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
138	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1
139	
140	1.	Add the Online Controller Reset (OCR) to the Driver.
141		OCR is the new feature for megaraid_sas driver which
142		will allow the fw to do the chip reset which will not
143		affact the OS behavious.
144	
145		To add the OCR support, driver need to do:
146			a). reset the controller chips -- Xscale and Gen2 which
147			will change the function calls and add the reset function
148			related to this two chips.
149	
150			b). during the reset, driver will store the pending cmds
151			which not returned by FW to driver's pending queue.  Driver
152			will re-issue those pending cmds again to FW after the OCR
153			finished.
154	
155			c). In driver's timeout routine, driver will report to
156			OS as reset. Also driver's queue routine will block the
157			cmds until the OCR finished.
158	
159			d). in Driver's ISR routine, if driver get the FW state as
160			state change, FW in Failure status and FW support online controller
161			reset (OCR), driver will start to do the controller reset.
162	
163			e). In driver's IOCTL routine, the application cmds will wait for the
164			OCR to finish, then issue the cmds to FW.
165	
166			f). Before driver kill adapter, driver will do last chance of
167			OCR to see if driver can bring back the FW.
168	
169	2.	Add the support update flag to the driver to tell LSI megaraid_sas
170		application which driver will support the device update.  So application
171		will not need to do the device update after application add/del the device
172		from the system.
173	3.	In driver's timeout routine, driver will do three time reset if fw is in
174		failed state.  Driver will kill adapter if can't bring back FW after the
175		this three times reset.
176	4.	Add the input parameter max_sectors to 1MB support to our GEN2 controller.
177		customer can use the input paramenter max_sectors to add 1MB support to GEN2
178		controller.
179	
180	1 Release Date    : Thur.  Oct 29, 2009 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
181				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
182				Bo Yang
183	
184	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1
185	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.12
186	
187	1.	Add the pad_0 in mfi frame structure to 0 to fix the
188		context value larger than 32bit value issue.
189	
190	2.	Add the logic drive list to the driver.  Driver will
191		keep the logic drive list internal after driver load.
192	
193	3.	driver fixed the device update issue after get the AEN
194		PD delete/ADD, LD add/delete from FW.
195	
196	1 Release Date    : Tues.  July 28, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
197				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
198				Bo Yang
199	
200	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.12
201	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.10
202	
203	1.	Change the AEN sys PD update from scsi_scan to
204		scsi_add_device and scsi_remove_device.
205	2.	Takeoff the debug print-out in aen_polling routine.
206	
207	1 Release Date    : Thur.  July 02, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
208				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
209				Bo Yang
210	
211	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.10
212	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.08
213	
214	1.	Add the 3 mins timeout during the controller initialize.
215	2.	Add the fix for 64bit sense date errors.
216	
217	1 Release Date    : Tues. May 05, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
218				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
219				Bo Yang
220	
221	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.08
222	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.06
223	
224	1.	Add the fix of pending in FW after deleted the logic drives.
225	2.	Add the fix of deallocating memory after get pdlist.
226	
227	1 Release Date    : Tues. March 26, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
228				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
229				Bo Yang
230	
231	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.06
232	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.04
233	
234	1.	Add the fix of the driver cmd empty fix of the driver cmd empty.
235	2.	Add the fix of the driver MSM AEN CMD cause the system slow.
236	
237	1 Release Date    : Tues. March 03, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
238				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
239				Bo Yang
240	
241	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.04
242	3 Older Version   : 00.00.04.01
243	
244	1.	Add the Tape drive fix to the driver: If the command is for
245		the tape device, set the pthru timeout to the os layer timeout value.
246	
247	2.	Add Poll_wait mechanism to Gen-2 Linux driv.
248			In the aen handler, driver needs to wakeup poll handler similar to
249			the way it raises SIGIO.
250	
251	3.	Add new controller new SAS2 support to the driver.
252	
253	4.	Report the unconfigured PD (system PD) to OS.
254	
255	5.	Add the IEEE SGL support to the driver
256	
257	6.	Reasign the Application cmds to SAS2 controller
258	
259	1 Release Date    : Thur.July. 24 11:41:51 PST 2008 -
260	                       (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
261	                       Sumant Patro
262	                       Bo Yang
263	
264	2 Current Version : 00.00.04.01
265	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.22
266	
267	1. Add the new controller (0078, 0079) support to the driver
268	       Those controllers are LSI's next generatation(gen2) SAS controllers.
269	
270	1 Release Date    : Mon.June. 23 10:12:45 PST 2008 -
271	                       (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
272	                       Sumant Patro
273	                       Bo Yang
274	
275	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.22
276	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.20
277	
278	1. Add shutdown DCMD cmd to the shutdown routine to make FW shutdown proper.
279	2. Unexpected interrupt occurs in HWR Linux driver, add the dumy readl pci flush will fix this issue.
280	
281	1 Release Date    : Mon. March 10 11:02:31 PDT 2008 -
282				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
283				Sumant Patro
284				Bo Yang
285	
286	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.20-RC1
287	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.16
288	
289	1. Rollback the sense info implementation
290		Sense buffer ptr data type in the ioctl path is reverted back
291		to u32 * as in previous versions of driver.
292	
293	2. Fixed the driver frame count.
294		When Driver sent wrong frame count to firmware.  As this
295		particular command is sent to drive, FW is seeing continuous
296		chip resets and so the command will timeout.
297	
298	3. Add the new controller(1078DE) support to the driver
299		and Increase the max_wait to 60 from 10 in the controller
300		operational status.  With this max_wait increase, driver will
301		make sure the FW will 	finish the pending cmd for KDUMP case.
302	
303	1 Release Date    : Thur. Nov. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
304				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
305				Sumant Patro
306				Bo Yang
307	
308	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.16
309	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.15
310	
311	1. Increased MFI_POLL_TIMEOUT_SECS to 60 seconds from 10. FW may take
312		a max of 60 seconds to respond to the INIT cmd.
313	
314	1 Release Date    : Fri. Sep. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
315				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
316				Sumant Patro
317				Bo Yang
318	
319	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.15
320	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.14
321	
322	1. Added module parameter "poll_mode_io" to support for "polling"
323		(reduced interrupt operation).  In this mode, IO completion
324		interrupts are delayed. At the end of initiating IOs, the
325		driver schedules for cmd completion if there are pending cmds
326		to be completed.  A timer-based interrupt has also been added
327		to prevent IO completion processing from being delayed
328		indefinitely in the case that no new IOs are initiated.
329	
330	1 Release Date    : Fri. Sep. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
331				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
332				Sumant Patro
333				Bo Yang
334	
335	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.14
336	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.13
337	
338	1. Setting the max_sectors_per_req based on max SGL supported by the
339		FW. Prior versions calculated this value from controller info
340		(max_sectors_1, max_sectors_2). For certain controllers/FW,
341		this was resulting in a value greater than max SGL supported
342		by the FW. Issue was first reported by users running LUKS+XFS
343		with megaraid_sas.  Thanks to RB for providing the logs and
344		duplication steps that helped to get to the root cause of the
345		issue.  2. Increased MFI_POLL_TIMEOUT_SECS to 60 seconds from
346		10. FW may take a max of 60 seconds to respond to the INIT
347		cmd.
348	
349	1 Release Date    : Fri. June. 15 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
350				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
351				Sumant Patro
352				Bo Yang
353	
354	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.13
355	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.12
356	
357	1. Added the megasas_reset_timer routine to intercept cmd timeout and throttle io.
358	
359	On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:44 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
360	It looks like megaraid_sas at least needs this to throttle its commands
361	> as they begin to time out.  The code keeps the existing transport
362	> template use of eh_timed_out (and allows the transport to override the
363	> host if they both have this callback).
364	>
365	> James
366	
367	1 Release Date    : Sat May. 12 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
368				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
369				Sumant Patro
370				Bo Yang
371	
372	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.12
373	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.11
374	
375	1.  When MegaSAS driver receives reset call from OS, driver waits in reset
376	routine for max 3 minutes for all pending command completion. Now driver will
377	call completion routine every 5 seconds from the reset routine instead of
378	waiting for depending on cmd completion from isr path.
379	
380	1 Release Date    : Mon Apr. 30 10:25:52 PST 2007 -
381				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
382				Sumant Patro
383				Bo Yang
384	
385	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.11
386	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.09
387	
388		1. Memory Manager for IOCTL removed for 2.6 kernels.
389		   pci_alloc_consistent replaced by dma_alloc_coherent. With this
390		   change there is no need of memory manager in the driver code
391	
392		On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
393		> I suspect all this horror is due to stupidity in the DMA API.
394		>
395		> pci_alloc_consistent() just goes and assumes GFP_ATOMIC, whereas
396		> the caller (megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl) would have been perfectly happy
397		> to use GFP_KERNEL.
398		>
399		> I bet this fixes it
400	
401		It does, but the DMA API was expanded to cope with this exact case, so
402		use dma_alloc_coherent() directly in the megaraid code instead.  The dev
403		is just &pci_dev->dev.
404	
405		James <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
406	
407		3. SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is not supported by FW and thus blocked by driver.
408		4. Hibernation support added
409		5. Performing diskdump while running IO in RHEL 4 was failing. Fixed.
410	
411	1 Release Date    : Fri Feb. 09 14:36:28 PST 2007 -
412				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
413				Sumant Patro
414				Bo Yang
415	
416	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.09
417	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.08
418	
419	i.	Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
420	
421		The driver now waits for 10 seconds to elapse instead of 5 (as in
422		previous release) to resume IO.
423	
424	1 Release Date    : Mon Feb. 05 11:35:24 PST 2007 -
425				(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
426				Sumant Patro
427				Bo Yang
428	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.08
429	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.07
430	
431	i.	Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
432	
433		Fix:	The driver is now throttling IO.
434		Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to
435		process commands within timeout period. If number of retries
436		is 2 or greater,the driver stops sending cmd to FW temporarily. IO is
437		resumed if pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 5 seconds has elapsed
438		from the time cmds were last sent to FW.
439	
440	ii.	FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured
441		as WriteBack. The OS may send "SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE" cmd when Logical
442		Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back
443		mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time
444		Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle
445		the cmd and return success without sending down to FW.
446	
447	1 Release Date    : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 -
448			 Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
449	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.07
450	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.06
451	
452	i.	bios_param entry added in scsi_host_template that returns disk geometry
453		information.
454	
455	1 Release Date    : Fri Oct 20 11:21:32 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
456	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.06
457	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.05
458	
459	1. Added new memory management module to support the IOCTL memory allocation. For IOCTL we try to allocate from the memory pool created during driver initialization. If mem pool is empty then we allocate at run time.
460	2. Added check in megasas_queue_command and dpc/isr routine to see if we have already declared adapter dead
461	   (hw_crit_error=1). If hw_crit_error==1, now we donot accept any processing of pending cmds/accept any cmd from OS
462	
463	1 Release Date    : Mon Oct 02 11:21:32 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
464	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.05
465	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.04
466	
467	i.	PCI_DEVICE macro used
468	
469		Convert the pci_device_id-table of the megaraid_sas-driver to the PCI_DEVICE-macro, to safe some lines.
470	
471			- Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
472	ii.	All compiler warnings removed
473	iii.	megasas_ctrl_info struct reverted to 3.02 release
474	iv.	Default value of megasas_dbg_lvl set to 0
475	v.	Removing in megasas_exit the sysfs entry created for megasas_dbg_lvl
476	vi.	In megasas_teardown_frame_pool(), cmd->frame was passed instead of
477		cmd->sense to pci_pool_free. Fixed. Bug was pointed out by
478		Eric Sesterhenn
479	
480	1 Release Date    : Wed Sep 13 14:22:51 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
481	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.04
482	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.03
483	
484	i.	Added Reboot notify
485	ii.	Reduced by 1 max cmds sent to FW from Driver to make the reply_q_sz same
486		as Max Cmds FW can support
487	
488	1 Release Date    : Tue Aug 22 16:33:14 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
489	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.03
490	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.02
491	
492	i.	Send stop adapter to FW & Dump pending FW cmds before declaring adapter dead.
493		New varible added to set dbg level.
494	ii.	Disable interrupt made as fn pointer as they are different for 1068 / 1078
495	iii.	Frame count optimization. Main frame can contain 2 SGE for 64 bit SGLs and
496		3 SGE for 32 bit SGL
497	iv.	Tasklet added for cmd completion
498	v.	If FW in operational state before firing INIT, now we send RESET Flag to FW instead of just READY. This is used to do soft reset.
499	vi.	megasas_ctrl_prop structure updated (based on FW struct)
500	vii.	Added print : FW now in Ready State during initialization
501	
502	1 Release Date    : Sun Aug 06 22:49:52 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
503	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.02
504	3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.01
505	
506	i.	Added FW tranistion state for Hotplug scenario
507	
508	1 Release Date    : Sun May 14 22:49:52 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
509	2 Current Version : 00.00.03.01
510	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.04
511	
512	i.	Added support for ZCR controller.
513	
514			New device id 0x413 added.
515	
516	ii.	Bug fix : Disable controller interrupt before firing INIT cmd to FW.
517	
518			Interrupt is enabled after required initialization is over.
519			This is done to ensure that driver is ready to handle interrupts when
520			it is generated by the controller.
521	
522			-Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
523	
524	1 Release Date    : Wed Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
525	2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
526	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.04 
527	
528	i.	Remove superflous instance_lock
529	
530		gets rid of the otherwise superflous instance_lock and avoids an unsave 
531		unsynchronized access in the error handler.
532	
533			- Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
534	
535	
536	1 Release Date    : Wed Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
537	2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
538	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.04 
539	
540	i.	Support for 1078 type (ppc IOP) controller, device id : 0x60 added.
541		During initialization, depending on the device id, the template members 
542		are initialized with function pointers specific to the ppc or 
543		xscale controllers.  
544	
545			-Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
546			
547	1 Release Date    : Fri Feb 03 14:16:25 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro 
548								<Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
549	2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
550	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.02 
551	i.	Register 16 byte CDB capability with scsi midlayer 
552	
553		"This patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the 
554		megaraid_sas controlled hardware with the scsi midlayer. All megaraid_sas 
555		hardware supports 16 byte CDB's."
556	
557			-Joshua Giles <joshua_giles@dell.com> 
558	
559	1 Release Date    : Mon Jan 23 14:09:01 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
560	2 Current Version : 00.00.02.02
561	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.01 
562	
563	i.	New template defined to represent each family of controllers (identified by processor used). 
564		The template will have defintions that will be initialised to appropritae values for a specific family of controllers. The template definition has four function pointers. During driver initialisation the function pointers will be set based on the controller family type. This change is done to support new controllers that has different processors and thus different register set.
565	
566			-Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
567	
568	1 Release Date    : Mon Dec 19 14:36:26 PST 2005 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
569	2 Current Version : 00.00.02.00-rc4 
570	3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.01 
571	
572	i.	Code reorganized to remove code duplication in megasas_build_cmd. 
573	
574		"There's a lot of duplicate code megasas_build_cmd.  Move that out of the different codepathes and merge the reminder of megasas_build_cmd into megasas_queue_command"
575	
576			- Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
577	
578	ii.	Defined MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 for code paths that handles 32 bit applications in 64 bit systems.
579	
580		"MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE can't be redefined if CONFIG_COMPAT is set, we need to define a MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 define so native binaries continue to work"
581	
582			- Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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