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1/*
2 *  Device driver optimized for the Symbios/LSI 53C896/53C895A/53C1010
3 *  PCI-SCSI controllers.
4 *
5 *  Copyright (C) 1999  Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
6 *
7 *  This driver also supports the following Symbios/LSI PCI-SCSI chips:
8 *	53C810A, 53C825A, 53C860, 53C875, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895.
9 *
10 *  but does not support earlier chips as the following ones:
11 *	53C810, 53C815, 53C825.
12 *
13 *  This driver for FreeBSD-CAM is derived from the Linux sym53c8xx driver.
14 *  Copyright (C) 1998-1999  Gerard Roudier
15 *
16 *  The sym53c8xx driver is derived from the ncr53c8xx driver that had been
17 *  a port of the FreeBSD ncr driver to Linux-1.2.13.
18 *
19 *  The original ncr driver has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by
20 *          Wolfgang Stanglmeier        <wolf@cologne.de>
21 *          Stefan Esser                <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
22 *  Copyright (C) 1994  Wolfgang Stanglmeier
23 *
24 *  The initialisation code, and part of the code that addresses
25 *  FreeBSD-CAM services is based on the aic7xxx driver for FreeBSD-CAM
26 *  written by Justin T. Gibbs.
27 *
28 *  Other major contributions:
29 *
30 *  NVRAM detection and reading.
31 *  Copyright (C) 1997 Richard Waltham <dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk>
32 *
33 *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
34 *
35 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
36 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
37 * are met:
38 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
39 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
40 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
41 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
42 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
43 * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
44 *    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
45 *
46 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
47 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
48 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
49 * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
50 * ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
51 * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
52 * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
53 * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
54 * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
55 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
56 * SUCH DAMAGE.
57 */
58
59Status:
60   BETA-RELEASE
61   This driver is currently developped under the following O/S:
62         FreeBSD 4.0 SNAPSHOT July 5th 1999
63         FreeBSD 4.0 current  October 1999
64   Starting with version 0.9.0, the driver contains conditionnal code
65   for using pre-4.0 BUS stuff for PCI. I have successfully tested driver
66   version 0.9.0 under:
67         FreeBSD 3.2 RELEASE
68         FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE
69
70Latest revision:
71   sym-0.12.0-19991127
72   Files to download:
73      SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz
74      PATCH-SYM-0.10.0-19991111.gz
75      PATCH-SYM-0.11.0-19991120.gz
76      PATCH-SYM-0.12.0-19991127.gz
77
78Supported SCSI features:
79  - Initiator mode
80  - Wide 16 SCSI BUS
81  - FAST10 up to FAST80-DT synchronous data transfers
82    (depends on controller capabilities)
83  - 64 luns per target
84  - 256 tags per lun
85  - MDP (1)
86  - BUS DEVICE RESET message
87  - ABORT, ABORT TAG message
88
89Supported generic chip features:
90  - On chip RAM
91  - PCI optimized transactions.
92
93Supported features of 896/895A/1010:
94  - Full SCRIPTS in on-board RAM (8K)
95  - Phase mismatch handling from SCRIPTS.
96
97Others:
98  - SYMBIOS NVRAM layout using 24c16 EEPROM
99  - TEKRAM  NVRAM layout using 24c16 EEPROM (2)
100  - TEKRAM  NVRAM layout using 93c46 EEPROM (2)
101  - Transfer residuals
102  - 0(1) for both SCRIPTS and C code, allowing
103    100% scalability.
104
105Notes:
106(1) Not yet reported. May not work as expected.
107
108Files:
109  README.sym		this file
110  sym_conf.h		driver configuration
111  sym_defs.h		driver definitions
112  sym_hipd.c		driver code
113  sym_sys.patch		kernel patch for FreeBSD 4
114  sym_sys_3.patch	kernel patch for FreeBSD 3
115
116These patches apply a change to the ncr.c driver that forces it to
117ignore SYM53C8XX chips that support LOAD/STORE. These devices will
118be attached by the sym_hipd.c driver.
119
120Installation:
121  1) Untar SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz
122  2) Create the /usr/src/sys/dev/sym directory
123  3) Copy README.sym, sym_conf.h, sym_defs.h and sym_hipd.c to
124     /usr/src/sys/dev/sym/
125  4) Change to /usr/src/sys/ directory
126  5) If FreeBSD-4, apply the unified patch sym_sys.patch
127         (patch -p0 <sym_sys.patch)
128     Otherwise,
129     If FreeBSD-3, apply the unified patch sym_sys_3.patch
130         (patch -p0 <sym_sys_3.patch)
131     Otherwise, leave here. ;)
132  6) Change to /usr/src/sys/dev/sym directory
133  7) Update to SYM-0.11.0-19991120
134     gzip -d <PATCH-SYM-0.10.0-19991111.gz | patch -p0
135     gzip -d <PATCH-SYM-0.11.0-19991120.gz | patch -p0
136     gzip -d <PATCH-SYM-0.12.0-19991127.gz | patch -p0
137  8) Add sym0 to your kernel configuration as indicated in patched LINT file.
138     Configure and make your kernel.
139
140As seen from the shell history file (driver material assumed from /tmp),
141installation should proceed as follow (modulo mistakes from me:)):
142
143cd /tmp
144tar zxvf SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz
145cp SYM-0.9.0-19991024/* /usr/src/sys/dev/sym
146cd /usr/src/sys
147patch -p0 <dev/sym/sym_sys.patch    # use sym_sys_3.patch if FreeBSD-3.X
148cd dev/sym
149gzip -d </tmp/PATCH-SYM-0.10.0-19991111.gz | patch -p0
150gzip -d </tmp/PATCH-SYM-0.11.0-19991120.gz | patch -p0
151gzip -d </tmp/PATCH-SYM-0.12.0-19991127.gz | patch -p0
152
153Configuring Ultra-3 DT data transfer support.
154---------------------------------------------
155If you have a board using the SYM53C1010 (only evaluation boards seem to
156be available for now), you may want to give Ultra-3 DT transfer a try.
157For the reasons that FreeBSD-CAM is not yet ready for Ultra-3 and that
158early SYM53C1010 chips need some work-around for DT transfers to work
159reliably, you must apply manually the following additionnal patch to your
160kernel tree:
161
162---------------------- Cut Here ------------------------
163--- cam/scsi/scsi_all.c.00	1999/08/29 16:21:44
164+++ cam/scsi/scsi_all.c	1999/11/23 22:11:22
165@@ -2394,6 +2394,7 @@
166         u_int period_factor;
167         u_int period;	/* in 10ths of ns */
168 } scsi_syncrates[] = {
169+        { 0x09, 125 },
170         { 0x0a, 250 },
171         { 0x0b, 303 },
172         { 0x0c, 500 }
173--- pci/sym_conf.h.00	Fri Nov 26 22:58:59 1999
174+++ pci/sym_conf.h	Fri Nov 26 22:58:38 1999
175@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
176  *  corresponding code will get useless.
177  */
178 /* #define	SYMCONF_BROKEN_U3EN_SUPPORT */
179+#define	SYMCONF_BROKEN_U3EN_SUPPORT
180
181 /*
182  *  Use Normal IO instead of MMIO.
183---------------------- Cut Here ------------------------
184
185This change consist in allowing sync factor 9 support to be handled
186by scsi_all.c and a compilation option to be defined in sym_conf.h.
187The driver may only start a PPR negotiation if sync factor is 9.
188This change has been only tested on FreeBSD-3.3 for the moment.
189
190For the PPR negotiation to occur at system startup time, you need to
191configure Ultra3 hard disks in the NVRAM for 80 Mega-transfers per second
192Wide.
193If you prefer to use camcontrol for such a negotiation to be performed after
194system startup, then you have to rebuild either the libcam shareable library
195with the patched version of scsi_all.c, on to rebuild camcontrol using
196the new static version of the libcam library that includes the patched
197version of scsi_all.o.
198
199Warnings:
200- This driver uses LOAD/STORE instructions from SCRIPTS and therefore does
201  not support earliest NCR chips (NCR53C810, NCR53C815, NCR53C825).
202
203Versionning:
204- The version number consists in 3 numbers X.Y.Z, starting with 0.0.0.
205- Z will not be used for incremental patches, but may be used for
206  quick fixes.
207- Incremental diff files are of the following pattern:
208            PATCH-SYM-X.Y.Z-YYYYMMDD
209  They must be applied from directory: /usr/src/sys/dev/sym/
210- Version 1.0.0 will happen when the driver will be tested enough but this
211  driver version will probably not officially support the C1010 (Ultra-3)
212  since the testing of Ultra3 has just started and FreeBSD-CAM is not yet
213  ready for the support of Ultra-3. Some 1.X.0 version will support
214  DT data transfer for the C1010.
215- Version 2.0.0 is not planned for now, but will add support for host target
216  mode if it will ever exist.
217
218Change log:
219* SYM-0.0.0-19990915
220  Initial release.
221
222* SYM-0.1.0-19990919  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.1.0-19990919
223  Add NVRAM support for latest Tekram boards using 24c16 EEPROM.
224
225* SYM-0.2.0-19990922  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.2.0-19990922
226  Add PPR negotiation and Ultra3 DT transfers for the LSI53C1010.
227  This corresponding code is untested since I haven't yet the
228  hardware. But the driver is not broken for current chips.
229
230* SYM-0.3.0-19990925  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.3.0-19990925
231  Source review.
232  Testing of the QUEUE FULL handling (some fixes applied).
233
234* SYM-0.4.0-19990925  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.4.0-19990928)
235  Fixes, notably the QUEUE FULL handling that requeued everything
236  without telling the XPT about the error. Note that this did not
237  break anything, but the queue depth was never reduced.
238
239* SYM-0.5.0-19991001  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.5.0-19991001)
240  Problem of not discovering LUNs != 0 hopefully fixed.
241  Some other minor fixes.
242
243* SYM-0.6.0-19991003  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.6.0-19991003)
244  Test error recovery pathes and residual calculation.
245  Improve Symbios NVRAM support by applying the SCAN_LUNS flag. The driver
246  answers DEV_NOT_THERE to INQUIRYs for LUNs that are not to be scanned.
247  Switch the driver status for SPI2 support to BETA-RELEASE.
248
249* SYM-0.7.0-19991006  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.7.0-19991006)
250  Add support of the LSI1510D that emulates a 895 (infos sent by Compaq
251  that seems to be the only supplier of this chip)
252  Return CAM_REQ_ABORTED on HS_ABORT host status.
253  Fix a tiny bug that let the driver miss the TAG setting.
254
255* SYM-0.8.0-19991016  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.8.0-19991016)
256  Heavy rewrite/rewamping of the error handling code in order to conform
257  to FreeBSD-CAM expectation of commands having to be requeued and device
258  queue to be frozen on any kind of error. Driver status switched back
259  to EXPERIMENTAL due to these changes.
260  Warn user about targets that are not flagged for SCAN AT BOOT in the
261  NVRAM, since the driver will not allow the corresponding devices to be
262  discovered by XPT.
263  And numerous minor changes.
264
265* SYM-0.9.0-19991024  (Tar file SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz)
266  Add support for previous PCI BUS stuff, for the driver to be useable
267  under FreeBSD 3.X RELEASES. The source is #ifdefed for using the old
268  PCI BUS code under __FreeBSD_version < 400000 and the new one otherwise.
269  Tested under RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE, but should also be just fine for 3.3.
270  Other changes against version 0.8.0 are only minor buglet fixes.
271
272* SYM-0.10.0-19991111  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.10.0-19991111)
273  Add support for Alpha - UNTESTED. Consists in some minor changes picked
274  mostly from the ncr driver and some others as ahc_pci.c.
275  Fix the LED support through GPIO0 for pre-896 chips. In fact some code
276  was wrongly conditionned by something that was never met.
277  Switch driver status to BETA-RELEASE given that this driver has been rock
278  solid even if a small number of users seems to actually use it.
279
280* SYM-0.11.0-19991120  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.11.0-19991120)
281  Rearrange a bit the initialisation code that deals with IO registers.
282  Fix a bug in MODIFY_DP/IGN_RESIDUE handling (May-be this code will
283  never be used).
284  Fix a tiny problem in Wide nego. The driver didn't start the Sync nego
285  after a Wide nego if synchronous parameters weren't also changed.
286  Apply fixes that should allow to successfully link the kernel on Alpha.
287  LSI53C1010 tested with Asynchronous, FAST5, FAST10, FAST20 and FAST40
288  data transfers.
289
290* SYM-0.12.0-19991127  (diff file PATCH-SYM-0.12.0-19991127)
291  Some testing in Ultra3 FAST-80 DT mode using a SYM53C1010 connected
292  to an ATLAS 4 Ultra3 disk. Required some tiny fix in the ppr nego code.
293  Some cosmetic changes in messages displayed under DEBUG.
294  Fix the chip table (and code) that made the driver wrongly attach
295  810 and 825 devices.
296
297November 27 1999.          "Gerard Roudier"<groudier@club-internet.fr>
298