the command group ID won't necessarily work for vendor-specific commands.
- Expand the storage in the SC_REQ structure to account for 16-byte commands.
This is a completely rewritten scsipi_xfer execution engine, and the
associated changes to HBA drivers. Overview of changes & features:
- All xfers are queued in the mid-layer, rather than doing so in an
ad-hoc fashion in individual adapter drivers.
- Adapter/channel resource management in the mid-layer, avoids even trying
to start running an xfer if the adapter/channel doesn't have the resources.
- Better communication between the mid-layer and the adapters.
- Asynchronous event notification mechanism from adapter to mid-layer and
peripherals.
- Better peripheral queue management: freeze/thaw, sorted requeueing during
recovery, etc.
- Clean separation of peripherals, adapters, and adapter channels (no more
scsipi_link).
- Kernel thread for each scsipi_channel makes error recovery much easier
(no more dealing with interrupt context when recovering from an error).
- Mid-layer support for tagged queueing: commands can have the tag type
set explicitly, tag IDs are allocated in the mid-layer (thus eliminating
the need to use buggy tag ID allocation schemes in many adapter drivers).
- support for QUEUE FULL and CHECK CONDITION status in mid-layer; the command
will be requeued, or a REQUEST SENSE will be sent as appropriate.
Just before the merge syssrc has been tagged with thorpej_scsipi_beforemerge
(currently only CD-ROM drives on i386). The sys/dev/scsipi system provides 2
busses to which devices can attach (scsibus and atapibus). This needed to
change some include files and structure names in the low level scsi drivers.
Also change the device probing scheme to use something a bit more rational.
A current side-effect is that nubus cards are double-mapped. I expect
to fix that shortly.
Also change splclock() to block everything but serial hardware interrupts.
reject them for simple commands. Leo W. reports that this does
not work for some systems. It's better than what we have now,
though. From Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>.
MSG_REJECT_MESSAGE instead of MSG_ABORT when we get an extended message.
This allows a DEC drive to work when it attempts to negotiate synch.
transfers on us.
I added two new bitfields to ncr_softc. They flag which devices have
been selected, and which ones have failed to go to message out when
selected with ATN. If a target fails to go to message out the first
time it is selected, it goes into the latter bitfield. If it fails
thereafter, we treat it as we did before.
