The file size was wrong in the no space left on device condition. This
resulted in turn in a read of an invalid block which lead to an EIO
error status.
Read-ahead requests were previously executed in the context of the
reading task. This blocks the reading task until the complete read
with read-ahead transfer is finished. A read-ahead task is introduced
to off-load the read-ahead transfer. This allows the reading task to
work with the requested block more quickly. The read-ahead is triggered
after two misses of ascending consecutive blocks or a read hit of a
block read by the most-recent read-ahead transfer. The read-ahead
feature is configurable and can be disabled.
PowerPC cores with the SPE (Signal Processing Extension) have 64-bit
general-purpose registers. The SPE context switch code has been merged
with the standard context switch code. The context switch may use cache
operations to increase the performance. It will be ensured that the
context is 32-byte aligned (PPC_DEFAULT_CACHE_LINE_SIZE). This
increases the overall memory size of the context area in the thread
control block slightly. The general-purpose registers GPR2 and GPR13
are no longer part of the context. The BSP must initialize these
registers during startup (usually initialized by the __eabi() function).
The new BSP option BSP_USE_DATA_CACHE_BLOCK_TOUCH can be used to enable
the dcbt instruction in the context switch.
The new BSP option BSP_USE_SYNC_IN_CONTEXT_SWITCH can be used to enable
sync and isync instructions in the context switch. This should be not
necessary in most cases.
The chroot() is an implicit chdir("/"). Set the current directory to
"/" after session close. This helps to avoid references to mounted file
systems in dynamic media.
+ libbsp/sparc/shared/include/pci.h was largely a copy of
an older version of the cpukit pci.h. Removed much of the
contents and included <rtems/pci.h>.
+ sparc/*/pci*.c - Move to <rtems/pci.h> required updating
to use uint32_t for dword accesses.
+ Rename PCI_MULTI_FUNCTION to PCI_HEADER_TYPE_MULTI_FUNCTION
+ Define PCI_HEADER_TYPE_MULTI_FUNCTION in cpukit pci.h and remove
PCI_MULTI_FUNCTION definitions in C files.
+ Move PCI_INVALID_VENDORDEVICEID definitions from various C files
to cpukit pci.h
