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Update the 5.2 TODO list to reflect progress in many areas.

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<td>KSE support for sparc64</td>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.jake;</td>
<td>Unsupported in 5.1-RELEASE; required for 5.2-RELEASE.</td>
<td>Kernel bits are implemented but untested. Userland bits are
not implemented. Required for 5.2-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KSE support for ia64</td>
<td>Complete.</td>
<td>&a.marcel;</td>
<td>Unsupported in 5.1-RELEASE; required for 5.2-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KSE support for amd64</td>
<td>In progress.</td>
<td>&a.peter;</td>
<td>Unsupported in 5.1-RELEASE; desired for 5.2-RELEASE if
amd64 is to achieve Tier 1 support.</td>
<td>Kernel and userland bits implemented but unstable. Required for
5.2-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KSE support for alpha</td>
<td>In progress.</td>
<td>&a.marcel;</td>
<td>Unsupported in 5.1-RELEASE; desired for 5.2-RELEASE if
alpha is to retain Tier 1 support.</td>
<td>Userland bits implemented, kernel bits not implemented. Required for
5.2-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<tr>
<td>ia64 sio support</td>
<td>New serial UART framework</td>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.marcel;, &a.imp;</td>
<td>ia64 serial console support is reported to not be functional
on HP Itanium2 platforms. A reworking of the sio driver to
improve platform independence and bus handling is likely needed.</td>
<td>A reworking of the sio driver is needed to support serial terminal
devices on sparc64 and ia64 platforms, among others. This is also an
enabler for syscons support on sparc64.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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and merged to the FreeBSD tree.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>sparc64 adaptation of syscons</td>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.jake;</td>
<td>Port syscons to sparc64. Add device drivers for sun mice
and keyboards. Allow for more than 3 bits of background
colour in syscons. Creator frame buffer device driver. In
the process, generally improve the MI-ness of syscons.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ACL_MASK override of umask support in UFS</td>
<td>In progress</td>
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contention on Giant.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ATA driver structural improvements, MPsafety</td>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.sos;</td>
<td>Move ATA commands into requests, so that they can be linked
together, centralize request queue management permitting direct
DMA of ATA commands. These architectural changes will also
facilitate complete MP-safety of the ATA driver suite, and
dramatically improve support for Promise RAID controllers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tier-1 Support for AMD64 Hammer</td>
<td>In progress</td>
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work, and should be coordinated with.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Support for a fully dynamic system</td>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.gordon;</td>
<td>With the introduction of extensive PAM and NSS support in 5.0-RELEASE
and 5.1-RELEASE, support for a fully dynamically linked system
is desired. &a.gordon; has in-progress patches to post for review
following the 5.1 release cycle.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Complete the APIC PCI interrupt routing support</td>
<td>In progresstd>
<td>In progress</td>
<td>&a.jhb</td>
<td>The existing APIC interrupt code does not support PCI interrupt
routing properly. As a result, PCI interrupts cannot be routed either
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<tr><th>Issue</th><th>Status</th><th>Responsible</th><th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ATA driver structural improvements, MPsafety</td>
<td>Complete</td>
<td>&a.sos;</td>
<td>New ATA model has arrived. Much testing is needed to ensure no
regressions. ATAPI-CAM seems especially fragile, more testing is
encouraged.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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