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## Things to fix and add in ZIO
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### To be done soon
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- Fix the README (it shows the old little-endian flag)
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- Add version support in zio-dump, so it will refuse to decode unknown
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control structs
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- Change the timestamp structures for something better and bump minor
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version
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### Fixes and audit For the next "release", which will be beta3, submittable to the kernel
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- Define where the control structure is being filled
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- Support for the output data flow (write for data and control)
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- Support for writing the control block even for input channels
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- Add attributes for trigger and timer
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- Fix module usage count, completing the half-implemented mechanism
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- Solve the problem of sizing a buffer instance
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- Evaluate a DECLARE\_ZIO\_NAME() so you can name your structures
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- Make a serious study of all race conditions, especially the problem
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of output configs where the trigger has not yet fired
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- Imaplement zio\_sys\_operations (set and get) to factorize
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attribute-handling code
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- Check all allocations and deallocations
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- Make a single zio-core.ko module that includes defualt trigger and
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buffer
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- Add more working examples, also fo real harware
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#### New features
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- Implement the bus absrtaction, to split drivers and devices
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- Define how driver-specific buffers and triggers are represented
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- Implement an enable/disable policy, so enabling channels may disable
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competing channels in another cset
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- Write a kmem\_cache for the control structures
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- Write tha app-request trigger, that should be the deault one
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- Write a circular buffer, that frees control structures and recreates
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them as needed
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- Think about the details of mmap support and DMA to user space
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