Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This series has a huge amount of churn because it pulls in Mauro's doc
  update changing all our txt files to rst ones.

  Excluding that, we have the usual driver updates (qla2xxx, ufs, lpfc,
  zfcp, ibmvfc, pm80xx, aacraid), a treewide update for scnprintf and
  some other minor updates.

  The major core change is Hannes moving functions out of the aacraid
  driver and into the core"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (223 commits)
  scsi: aic7xxx: aic97xx: Remove FreeBSD-specific code
  scsi: ufs: Do not rely on prefetched data
  scsi: dc395x: remove dc395x_bios_param
  scsi: libiscsi: Fix error count for active session
  scsi: hpsa: correct race condition in offload enabled
  scsi: message: fusion: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  scsi: qedi: Add PCI shutdown handler support
  scsi: qedi: Add MFW error recovery process
  scsi: ufs: Enable block layer runtime PM for well-known logical units
  scsi: ufs-qcom: Override devfreq parameters
  scsi: ufshcd: Let vendor override devfreq parameters
  scsi: ufshcd: Update the set frequency to devfreq
  scsi: ufs: Resume ufs host before accessing ufs device
  scsi: ufs-mediatek: customize the delay for enabling host
  scsi: ufs: make HCE polling more compact to improve initialization latency
  scsi: ufs: allow custom delay prior to host enabling
  scsi: ufs-mediatek: use common delay function
  scsi: ufs: introduce common and flexible delay function
  scsi: ufs: use an enum for host capabilities
  scsi: ufs: fix uninitialized tx_lanes in ufshcd_disable_tx_lcc()
  ...

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=========================================
+The Linux SYM-2 driver documentation file
+=========================================
+
+Written by Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
+
+21 Rue Carnot
+
+95170 DEUIL LA BARRE - FRANCE
+
+Updated by Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
+
+2004-10-09
+
+.. Contents
+
+   1.  Introduction
+   2.  Supported chips and SCSI features
+   3.  Advantages of this driver for newer chips.
+         3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS
+         3.2 New features appeared with the SYM53C896
+   4.  Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O
+   5.  Tagged command queueing
+   6.  Parity checking
+   7.  Profiling information
+   8.  Control commands
+         8.1  Set minimum synchronous period
+         8.2  Set wide size
+         8.3  Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands
+         8.4  Set debug mode
+         8.5  Set flag (no_disc)
+         8.6  Set verbose level
+         8.7  Reset all logical units of a target
+         8.8  Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target
+   9.  Configuration parameters
+   10. Boot setup commands
+         10.1 Syntax
+         10.2 Available arguments
+                10.2.1  Default number of tagged commands
+                10.2.2  Burst max
+                10.2.3  LED support
+                10.2.4  Differential mode
+                10.2.5  IRQ mode
+                10.2.6  Check SCSI BUS
+                10.2.7  Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts
+                10.2.8  Verbosity level
+                10.2.9  Debug mode
+                10.2.10 Settle delay
+                10.2.11 Serial NVRAM
+                10.2.12 Exclude a host from being attached
+         10.3 Converting from old options
+         10.4 SCSI BUS checking boot option
+   11. SCSI problem troubleshooting
+         15.1 Problem tracking
+         15.2 Understanding hardware error reports
+   12. Serial NVRAM support (by Richard Waltham)
+         17.1 Features
+         17.2 Symbios NVRAM layout
+         17.3 Tekram  NVRAM layout
+
+
+1. Introduction
+===============
+
+This driver supports the whole SYM53C8XX family of PCI-SCSI controllers.
+It also support the subset of LSI53C10XX PCI-SCSI controllers that are based
+on the SYM53C8XX SCRIPTS language.
+
+It replaces the sym53c8xx+ncr53c8xx driver bundle and shares its core code
+with the FreeBSD SYM-2 driver. The 'glue' that allows this driver to work
+under Linux is contained in 2 files named sym_glue.h and sym_glue.c.
+Other drivers files are intended not to depend on the Operating System
+on which the driver is used.
+
+The history of this driver can be summarized as follows:
+
+1993: ncr driver written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by:
+
+          - Wolfgang Stanglmeier        <wolf@cologne.de>
+          - Stefan Esser                <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
+
+1996: port of the ncr driver to Linux-1.2.13 and rename it ncr53c8xx.
+
+          - Gerard Roudier
+
+1998: new sym53c8xx driver for Linux based on LOAD/STORE instruction and that
+      adds full support for the 896 but drops support for early NCR devices.
+
+          - Gerard Roudier
+
+1999: port of the sym53c8xx driver to FreeBSD and support for the LSI53C1010
+      33 MHz and 66MHz Ultra-3 controllers. The new driver is named 'sym'.
+
+          - Gerard Roudier
+
+2000: Add support for early NCR devices to FreeBSD 'sym' driver.
+      Break the driver into several sources and separate the OS glue
+      code from the core code that can be shared among different O/Ses.
+      Write a glue code for Linux.
+
+          - Gerard Roudier
+
+2004: Remove FreeBSD compatibility code.  Remove support for versions of
+      Linux before 2.6.  Start using Linux facilities.
+
+This README file addresses the Linux version of the driver. Under FreeBSD,
+the driver documentation is the sym.8 man page.
+
+Information about new chips is available at LSILOGIC web server:
+
+          http://www.lsilogic.com/
+
+SCSI standard documentations are available at T10 site:
+
+          http://www.t10.org/
+
+Useful SCSI tools written by Eric Youngdale are part of most Linux
+distributions:
+
+   ============ ==========================
+   scsiinfo     command line tool
+   scsi-config  TCL/Tk tool using scsiinfo
+   ============ ==========================
+
+2. Supported chips and SCSI features
+====================================
+
+The following features are supported for all chips:
+
+	- Synchronous negotiation
+	- Disconnection
+	- Tagged command queuing
+	- SCSI parity checking
+	- PCI Master parity checking
+
+Other features depends on chip capabilities.
+
+The driver notably uses optimized SCRIPTS for devices that support
+LOAD/STORE and handles PHASE MISMATCH from SCRIPTS for devices that
+support the corresponding feature.
+
+The following table shows some characteristics of the chip family.
+
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|        |           |     |           |            |Load/store  |Hardware |
+|        |On board   |     |           |            |scripts     |phase    |
+|Chip    |SDMS BIOS  |Wide |SCSI std.  | Max. sync  |            |mismatch |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|810     |     N     |  N  | FAST10    | 10 MB/s    |      N     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|810A    |     N     |  N  | FAST10    | 10 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|815     |     Y     |  N  | FAST10    | 10 MB/s    |      N     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|825     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST10    | 20 MB/s    |      N     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|825A    |     Y     |  Y  | FAST10    | 20 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|860     |     N     |  N  | FAST20    | 20 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|875     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST20    | 40 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|875A    |     Y     |  Y  | FAST20    | 40 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|876     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST20    | 40 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|895     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST40    | 80 MB/s    |      Y     |    N    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|895A    |     Y     |  Y  | FAST40    | 80 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|896     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST40    | 80 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|897     |     Y     |  Y  | FAST40    | 80 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|1510D   |     Y     |  Y  | FAST40    | 80 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|1010    |     Y     |  Y  | FAST80    |160 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+|1010_66 |     Y     |  Y  | FAST80    |160 MB/s    |      Y     |    Y    |
+|[1]_    |           |     |           |            |            |         |
++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+---------+
+
+.. [1] Chip supports 33MHz and 66MHz PCI bus clock.
+
+
+Summary of other supported features:
+
+:Module:                allow to load the driver
+:Memory mapped I/O:     increases performance
+:Control commands:      write operations to the proc SCSI file system
+:Debugging information: written to syslog (expert only)
+:Serial NVRAM:          Symbios and Tekram formats
+
+- Scatter / gather
+- Shared interrupt
+- Boot setup commands
+
+
+3. Advantages of this driver for newer chips.
+=============================================
+
+3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS
+--------------------------
+
+All chips except the 810, 815 and 825, support new SCSI SCRIPTS instructions
+named LOAD and STORE that allow to move up to 1 DWORD from/to an IO register
+to/from memory much faster that the MOVE MEMORY instruction that is supported
+by the 53c7xx and 53c8xx family.
+
+The LOAD/STORE instructions support absolute and DSA relative addressing
+modes. The SCSI SCRIPTS had been entirely rewritten using LOAD/STORE instead
+of MOVE MEMORY instructions.
+
+Due to the lack of LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions by earlier chips, this
+driver also incorporates a different SCRIPTS set based on MEMORY MOVE, in
+order to provide support for the entire SYM53C8XX chips family.
+
+3.2 New features appeared with the SYM53C896
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Newer chips (see above) allows handling of the phase mismatch context from
+SCRIPTS (avoids the phase mismatch interrupt that stops the SCSI processor
+until the C code has saved the context of the transfer).
+
+The 896 and 1010 chips support 64 bit PCI transactions and addressing,
+while the 895A supports 32 bit PCI transactions and 64 bit addressing.
+The SCRIPTS processor of these chips is not true 64 bit, but uses segment
+registers for bit 32-63. Another interesting feature is that LOAD/STORE
+instructions that address the on-chip RAM (8k) remain internal to the chip.
+
+4. Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O
+======================================
+
+Memory mapped I/O has less latency than normal I/O and is the recommended
+way for doing IO with PCI devices. Memory mapped I/O seems to work fine on
+most hardware configurations, but some poorly designed chipsets may break
+this feature. A configuration option is provided for normal I/O to be
+used but the driver defaults to MMIO.
+
+5. Tagged command queueing
+==========================
+
+Queuing more than 1 command at a time to a device allows it to perform
+optimizations based on actual head positions and its mechanical
+characteristics. This feature may also reduce average command latency.
+In order to really gain advantage of this feature, devices must have
+a reasonable cache size (No miracle is to be expected for a low-end
+hard disk with 128 KB or less).
+
+Some known old SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing.
+Generally, firmware revisions that fix this kind of problems are available
+at respective vendor web/ftp sites.
+
+All I can say is that I never have had problem with tagged queuing using
+this driver and its predecessors. Hard disks that behaved correctly for
+me using tagged commands are the following:
+
+- IBM S12 0662
+- Conner 1080S
+- Quantum Atlas I
+- Quantum Atlas II
+- Seagate Cheetah I
+- Quantum Viking II
+- IBM DRVS
+- Quantum Atlas IV
+- Seagate Cheetah II
+
+If your controller has NVRAM, you can configure this feature per target
+from the user setup tool. The Tekram Setup program allows to tune the
+maximum number of queued commands up to 32. The Symbios Setup only allows
+to enable or disable this feature.
+
+The maximum number of simultaneous tagged commands queued to a device
+is currently set to 16 by default.  This value is suitable for most SCSI
+disks.  With large SCSI disks (>= 2GB, cache >= 512KB, average seek time
+<= 10 ms), using a larger value may give better performances.
+
+This driver supports up to 255 commands per device, and but using more than
+64 is generally not worth-while, unless you are using a very large disk or
+disk arrays. It is noticeable that most of recent hard disks seem not to
+accept more than 64 simultaneous commands. So, using more than 64 queued
+commands is probably just resource wasting.
+
+If your controller does not have NVRAM or if it is managed by the SDMS
+BIOS/SETUP, you can configure tagged queueing feature and device queue
+depths from the boot command-line. For example::
+
+  sym53c8xx=tags:4/t2t3q15-t4q7/t1u0q32
+
+will set tagged commands queue depths as follow:
+
+- target 2  all luns  on controller 0 --> 15
+- target 3  all luns  on controller 0 --> 15
+- target 4  all luns  on controller 0 -->  7
+- target 1  lun 0     on controller 1 --> 32
+- all other target/lun                -->  4
+
+In some special conditions, some SCSI disk firmwares may return a
+QUEUE FULL status for a SCSI command. This behaviour is managed by the
+driver using the following heuristic:
+
+- Each time a QUEUE FULL status is returned, tagged queue depth is reduced
+  to the actual number of disconnected commands.
+
+- Every 200 successfully completed SCSI commands, if allowed by the
+  current limit, the maximum number of queueable commands is incremented.
+
+Since QUEUE FULL status reception and handling is resource wasting, the
+driver notifies by default this problem to user by indicating the actual
+number of commands used and their status, as well as its decision on the
+device queue depth change.
+The heuristic used by the driver in handling QUEUE FULL ensures that the
+impact on performances is not too bad. You can get rid of the messages by
+setting verbose level to zero, as follow:
+
+1st method:
+	    boot your system using 'sym53c8xx=verb:0' option.
+2nd method:
+	    apply "setverbose 0" control command to the proc fs entry
+            corresponding to your controller after boot-up.
+
+6. Parity checking
+==================
+
+The driver supports SCSI parity checking and PCI bus master parity
+checking.  These features must be enabled in order to ensure safe
+data transfers.  Some flawed devices or mother boards may have problems
+with parity.  The options to defeat parity checking have been removed
+from the driver.
+
+7. Profiling information
+========================
+
+This driver does not provide profiling information as did its predecessors.
+This feature was not this useful and added complexity to the code.
+As the driver code got more complex, I have decided to remove everything
+that didn't seem actually useful.
+
+8. Control commands
+===================
+
+Control commands can be sent to the driver with write operations to
+the proc SCSI file system. The generic command syntax is the
+following::
+
+      echo "<verb> <parameters>" >/proc/scsi/sym53c8xx/0
+      (assumes controller number is 0)
+
+Using "all" for "<target>" parameter with the commands below will
+apply to all targets of the SCSI chain (except the controller).
+
+Available commands:
+
+8.1 Set minimum synchronous period factor
+-----------------------------------------
+
+    setsync <target> <period factor>
+
+    :target:   target number
+    :period:   minimum synchronous period.
+               Maximum speed = 1000/(4*period factor) except for special
+               cases below.
+
+    Specify a period of 0, to force asynchronous transfer mode.
+
+     -  9 means 12.5 nano-seconds synchronous period
+     - 10 means 25 nano-seconds synchronous period
+     - 11 means 30 nano-seconds synchronous period
+     - 12 means 50 nano-seconds synchronous period
+
+8.2 Set wide size
+-----------------
+
+    setwide <target> <size>
+
+    :target:   target number
+    :size:     0=8 bits, 1=16bits
+
+8.3 Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+    settags <target> <tags>
+
+    :target:   target number
+    :tags:     number of concurrent tagged commands
+               must not be greater than configured (default: 16)
+
+8.4 Set debug mode
+------------------
+
+    setdebug <list of debug flags>
+
+    Available debug flags:
+
+	======== ========================================================
+        alloc    print info about memory allocations (ccb, lcb)
+        queue    print info about insertions into the command start queue
+        result   print sense data on CHECK CONDITION status
+        scatter  print info about the scatter process
+        scripts  print info about the script binding process
+	tiny     print minimal debugging information
+	timing   print timing information of the NCR chip
+	nego     print information about SCSI negotiations
+	phase    print information on script interruptions
+	======== ========================================================
+
+    Use "setdebug" with no argument to reset debug flags.
+
+
+8.5 Set flag (no_disc)
+----------------------
+
+    setflag <target> <flag>
+
+    :target:    target number
+
+    For the moment, only one flag is available:
+
+        no_disc:   not allow target to disconnect.
+
+    Do not specify any flag in order to reset the flag. For example:
+
+    setflag 4
+      will reset no_disc flag for target 4, so will allow it disconnections.
+    setflag all
+      will allow disconnection for all devices on the SCSI bus.
+
+
+8.6 Set verbose level
+---------------------
+
+    setverbose #level
+
+    The driver default verbose level is 1. This command allows to change
+    th driver verbose level after boot-up.
+
+8.7 Reset all logical units of a target
+---------------------------------------
+
+    resetdev <target>
+
+    :target:    target number
+
+    The driver will try to send a BUS DEVICE RESET message to the target.
+
+8.8 Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+    cleardev <target>
+
+    :target:    target number
+
+    The driver will try to send a ABORT message to all the logical units
+    of the target.
+
+
+9. Configuration parameters
+===========================
+
+Under kernel configuration tools (make menuconfig, for example), it is
+possible to change some default driver configuration parameters.
+If the firmware of all your devices is perfect enough, all the
+features supported by the driver can be enabled at start-up. However,
+if only one has a flaw for some SCSI feature, you can disable the
+support by the driver of this feature at linux start-up and enable
+this feature after boot-up only for devices that support it safely.
+
+Configuration parameters:
+
+Use normal IO                         (default answer: n)
+    Answer "y" if you suspect your mother board to not allow memory mapped I/O.
+    May slow down performance a little.
+
+Default tagged command queue depth    (default answer: 16)
+    Entering 0 defaults to tagged commands not being used.
+    This parameter can be specified from the boot command line.
+
+Maximum number of queued commands     (default answer: 32)
+    This option allows you to specify the maximum number of tagged commands
+    that can be queued to a device. The maximum supported value is 255.
+
+Synchronous transfers frequency       (default answer: 80)
+    This option allows you to specify the frequency in MHz the driver
+    will use at boot time for synchronous data transfer negotiations.
+    0 means "asynchronous data transfers".
+
+10. Boot setup commands
+=======================
+
+10.1 Syntax
+-----------
+
+Setup commands can be passed to the driver either at boot time or as
+parameters to modprobe, as described in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+
+Example of boot setup command under lilo prompt::
+
+    lilo: linux root=/dev/sda2 sym53c8xx.cmd_per_lun=4 sym53c8xx.sync=10 sym53c8xx.debug=0x200
+
+- enable tagged commands, up to 4 tagged commands queued.
+- set synchronous negotiation speed to 10 Mega-transfers / second.
+- set DEBUG_NEGO flag.
+
+The following command will install the driver module with the same
+options as above::
+
+    modprobe sym53c8xx cmd_per_lun=4 sync=10 debug=0x200
+
+10.2 Available arguments
+------------------------
+
+10.2.1  Default number of tagged commands
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+        - cmd_per_lun=0 (or cmd_per_lun=1) tagged command queuing disabled
+        - cmd_per_lun=#tags (#tags > 1) tagged command queuing enabled
+
+  #tags will be truncated to the max queued commands configuration parameter.
+
+10.2.2 Burst max
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	========== ======================================================
+        burst=0    burst disabled
+        burst=255  get burst length from initial IO register settings.
+        burst=#x   burst enabled (1<<#x burst transfers max)
+
+		   #x is an integer value which is log base 2 of the burst
+		   transfers max.
+	========== ======================================================
+
+  By default the driver uses the maximum value supported by the chip.
+
+10.2.3 LED support
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	=====      ===================
+        led=1      enable  LED support
+        led=0      disable LED support
+	=====      ===================
+
+  Do not enable LED support if your scsi board does not use SDMS BIOS.
+  (See 'Configuration parameters')
+
+10.2.4 Differential mode
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	======	=================================
+	diff=0	never set up diff mode
+        diff=1	set up diff mode if BIOS set it
+        diff=2	always set up diff mode
+        diff=3	set diff mode if GPIO3 is not set
+	======	=================================
+
+10.2.5 IRQ mode
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	======     ================================================
+        irqm=0     always open drain
+        irqm=1     same as initial settings (assumed BIOS settings)
+        irqm=2     always totem pole
+	======     ================================================
+
+10.2.6 Check SCSI BUS
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+        buschk=<option bits>
+
+    Available option bits:
+
+	===    ================================================
+        0x0    No check.
+        0x1    Check and do not attach the controller on error.
+        0x2    Check and just warn on error.
+	===    ================================================
+
+10.2.7 Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	==========	==========================================
+        hostid=255	no id suggested.
+        hostid=#x	(0 < x < 7) x suggested for hosts SCSI id.
+	==========	==========================================
+
+    If a host SCSI id is available from the NVRAM, the driver will ignore
+    any value suggested as boot option. Otherwise, if a suggested value
+    different from 255 has been supplied, it will use it. Otherwise, it will
+    try to deduce the value previously set in the hardware and use value
+    7 if the hardware value is zero.
+
+10.2.8  Verbosity level
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	======     ========
+        verb=0     minimal
+        verb=1     normal
+        verb=2     too much
+	======     ========
+
+10.2.9 Debug mode
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	=========   ====================================
+        debug=0	    clear debug flags
+        debug=#x    set debug flags
+
+		    #x is an integer value combining the
+		    following power-of-2 values:
+
+		    =============  ======
+		    DEBUG_ALLOC       0x1
+		    DEBUG_PHASE       0x2
+		    DEBUG_POLL        0x4
+		    DEBUG_QUEUE       0x8
+		    DEBUG_RESULT     0x10
+		    DEBUG_SCATTER    0x20
+		    DEBUG_SCRIPT     0x40
+		    DEBUG_TINY       0x80
+		    DEBUG_TIMING    0x100
+		    DEBUG_NEGO      0x200
+		    DEBUG_TAGS      0x400
+		    DEBUG_FREEZE    0x800
+		    DEBUG_RESTART  0x1000
+		    =============  ======
+	=========   ====================================
+
+  You can play safely with DEBUG_NEGO. However, some of these flags may
+  generate bunches of syslog messages.
+
+10.2.10 Settle delay
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	========	===================
+        settle=n	delay for n seconds
+	========	===================
+
+  After a bus reset, the driver will delay for n seconds before talking
+  to any device on the bus.  The default is 3 seconds and safe mode will
+  default it to 10.
+
+10.2.11 Serial NVRAM
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+	.. Note:: option not currently implemented.
+
+	=======     =========================================
+        nvram=n     do not look for serial NVRAM
+        nvram=y     test controllers for onboard serial NVRAM
+	=======     =========================================
+
+        (alternate binary form)
+
+        nvram=<bits options>
+
+        ====   =================================================================
+        0x01   look for NVRAM  (equivalent to nvram=y)
+        0x02   ignore NVRAM "Synchronous negotiation" parameters for all devices
+        0x04   ignore NVRAM "Wide negotiation"  parameter for all devices
+        0x08   ignore NVRAM "Scan at boot time" parameter for all devices
+        0x80   also attach controllers set to OFF in the NVRAM (sym53c8xx only)
+        ====   =================================================================
+
+10.2.12 Exclude a host from being attached
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+        excl=<io_address>,...
+
+    Prevent host at a given io address from being attached.
+    For example 'excl=0xb400,0xc000' indicate to the
+    driver not to attach hosts at address 0xb400 and 0xc000.
+
+10.3 Converting from old style options
+--------------------------------------
+
+Previously, the sym2 driver accepted arguments of the form::
+
+	sym53c8xx=tags:4,sync:10,debug:0x200
+
+As a result of the new module parameters, this is no longer available.
+Most of the options have remained the same, but tags has become
+cmd_per_lun to reflect its different purposes.  The sample above would
+be specified as::
+
+	modprobe sym53c8xx cmd_per_lun=4 sync=10 debug=0x200
+
+or on the kernel boot line as::
+
+	sym53c8xx.cmd_per_lun=4 sym53c8xx.sync=10 sym53c8xx.debug=0x200
+
+10.4 SCSI BUS checking boot option
+----------------------------------
+
+When this option is set to a non-zero value, the driver checks SCSI lines
+logic state, 100 micro-seconds after having asserted the SCSI RESET line.
+The driver just reads SCSI lines and checks all lines read FALSE except RESET.
+Since SCSI devices shall release the BUS at most 800 nano-seconds after SCSI
+RESET has been asserted, any signal to TRUE may indicate a SCSI BUS problem.
+Unfortunately, the following common SCSI BUS problems are not detected:
+
+- Only 1 terminator installed.
+- Misplaced terminators.
+- Bad quality terminators.
+
+On the other hand, either bad cabling, broken devices, not conformant
+devices, ... may cause a SCSI signal to be wrong when te driver reads it.
+
+15. SCSI problem troubleshooting
+================================
+
+15.1 Problem tracking
+---------------------
+
+Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or too buggy
+devices.  If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the
+following things:
+
+- SCSI bus cables
+- terminations at both end of the SCSI chain
+- linux syslog messages (some of them may help you)
+
+If you do not find the source of problems, you can configure the
+driver or devices in the NVRAM with minimal features.
+
+- only asynchronous data transfers
+- tagged commands disabled
+- disconnections not allowed
+
+Now, if your SCSI bus is ok, your system has every chance to work
+with this safe configuration but performances will not be optimal.
+
+If it still fails, then you can send your problem description to
+appropriate mailing lists or news-groups.  Send me a copy in order to
+be sure I will receive it.  Obviously, a bug in the driver code is
+possible.
+
+  My current email address: Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
+
+Allowing disconnections is important if you use several devices on
+your SCSI bus but often causes problems with buggy devices.
+Synchronous data transfers increases throughput of fast devices like
+hard disks.  Good SCSI hard disks with a large cache gain advantage of
+tagged commands queuing.
+
+15.2 Understanding hardware error reports
+-----------------------------------------
+
+When the driver detects an unexpected error condition, it may display a
+message of the following pattern::
+
+    sym0:1: ERROR (0:48) (1-21-65) (f/95/0) @ (script 7c0:19000000).
+    sym0: script cmd = 19000000
+    sym0: regdump: da 10 80 95 47 0f 01 07 75 01 81 21 80 01 09 00.
+
+Some fields in such a message may help you understand the cause of the
+problem, as follows::
+
+    sym0:1: ERROR (0:48) (1-21-65) (f/95/0) @ (script 7c0:19000000).
+    .....A.........B.C....D.E..F....G.H..I.......J.....K...L.......
+
+Field A : target number.
+  SCSI ID of the device the controller was talking with at the moment the
+  error occurs.
+
+Field B : DSTAT io register (DMA STATUS)
+  ========   =============================================================
+  Bit 0x40   MDPE Master Data Parity Error
+             Data parity error detected on the PCI BUS.
+  Bit 0x20   BF   Bus Fault
+             PCI bus fault condition detected
+  Bit 0x01   IID  Illegal Instruction Detected
+             Set by the chip when it detects an Illegal Instruction format
+             on some condition that makes an instruction illegal.
+  Bit 0x80   DFE Dma Fifo Empty
+             Pure status bit that does not indicate an error.
+  ========   =============================================================
+
+  If the reported DSTAT value contains a combination of MDPE (0x40),
+  BF (0x20), then the cause may be likely due to a PCI BUS problem.
+
+Field C : SIST io register (SCSI Interrupt Status)
+  ========   ==================================================================
+  Bit 0x08   SGE  SCSI GROSS ERROR
+             Indicates that the chip detected a severe error condition
+             on the SCSI BUS that prevents the SCSI protocol from functioning
+             properly.
+  Bit 0x04   UDC  Unexpected Disconnection
+             Indicates that the device released the SCSI BUS when the chip
+             was not expecting this to happen. A device may behave so to
+             indicate the SCSI initiator that an error condition not reportable              using the SCSI protocol has occurred.
+  Bit 0x02   RST  SCSI BUS Reset
+             Generally SCSI targets do not reset the SCSI BUS, although any
+             device on the BUS can reset it at any time.
+  Bit 0x01   PAR  Parity
+             SCSI parity error detected.
+  ========   ==================================================================
+
+  On a faulty SCSI BUS, any error condition among SGE (0x08), UDC (0x04) and
+  PAR (0x01) may be detected by the chip. If your SCSI system sometimes
+  encounters such error conditions, especially SCSI GROSS ERROR, then a SCSI
+  BUS problem is likely the cause of these errors.
+
+For fields D,E,F,G and H, you may look into the sym53c8xx_defs.h file
+that contains some minimal comments on IO register bits.
+
+Field D : SOCL  Scsi Output Control Latch
+          This register reflects the state of the SCSI control lines the
+          chip want to drive or compare against.
+Field E : SBCL  Scsi Bus Control Lines
+          Actual value of control lines on the SCSI BUS.
+Field F : SBDL  Scsi Bus Data Lines
+          Actual value of data lines on the SCSI BUS.
+Field G : SXFER  SCSI Transfer
+          Contains the setting of the Synchronous Period for output and
+          the current Synchronous offset (offset 0 means asynchronous).
+Field H : SCNTL3 Scsi Control Register 3
+          Contains the setting of timing values for both asynchronous and
+          synchronous data transfers.
+Field I : SCNTL4 Scsi Control Register 4
+          Only meaningful for 53C1010 Ultra3 controllers.
+
+Understanding Fields J, K, L and dumps requires to have good knowledge of
+SCSI standards, chip cores functionnals and internal driver data structures.
+You are not required to decode and understand them, unless you want to help
+maintain the driver code.
+
+17. Serial NVRAM (added by Richard Waltham: dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk)
+==========================================================================
+
+17.1 Features
+-------------
+
+Enabling serial NVRAM support enables detection of the serial NVRAM included
+on Symbios and some Symbios compatible host adaptors, and Tekram boards. The
+serial NVRAM is used by Symbios and Tekram to hold set up parameters for the
+host adaptor and its attached drives.
+
+The Symbios NVRAM also holds data on the boot order of host adaptors in a
+system with more than one host adaptor.  This information is no longer used
+as it's fundamentally incompatible with the hotplug PCI model.
+
+Tekram boards using Symbios chips, DC390W/F/U, which have NVRAM are detected
+and this is used to distinguish between Symbios compatible and Tekram host
+adaptors. This is used to disable the Symbios compatible "diff" setting
+incorrectly set on Tekram boards if the CONFIG_SCSI_53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT
+configuration parameter is set enabling both Symbios and Tekram boards to be
+used together with the Symbios cards using all their features, including
+"diff" support. ("led pin" support for Symbios compatible cards can remain
+enabled when using Tekram cards. It does nothing useful for Tekram host
+adaptors but does not cause problems either.)
+
+The parameters the driver is able to get from the NVRAM depend on the
+data format used, as follow:
+
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|                               |Tekram format     |Symbios format|
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|General and host parameters    |                  |              |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Boot order                 |        N         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Host SCSI ID               |        Y         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * SCSI parity checking       |        Y         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Verbose boot messages      |        N         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|SCSI devices parameters                                          |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Synchronous transfer speed |        Y         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Wide 16 / Narrow           |        Y         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Tagged Command Queuing     |        Y         |       Y      |
+|    enabled                    |                  |              |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Disconnections enabled     |        Y         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+|  * Scan at boot time          |        N         |       Y      |
++-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+
+
+
+In order to speed up the system boot, for each device configured without
+the "scan at boot time" option, the driver forces an error on the
+first TEST UNIT READY command received for this device.
+
+
+17.2 Symbios NVRAM layout
+-------------------------
+
+typical data at NVRAM address 0x100 (53c810a NVRAM)::
+
+    00 00
+    64 01
+    8e 0b
+
+    00 30 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 04 10 04 00 00
+
+    04 00 0f 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 01 00 00 62
+    04 00 03 00 00 10 00 58 00 00 01 00 00 63
+    04 00 01 00 00 10 00 48 00 00 01 00 00 61
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+
+    fe fe
+    00 00
+    00 00
+
+NVRAM layout details
+
+============= =================
+NVRAM Address
+============= =================
+0x000-0x0ff   not used
+0x100-0x26f   initialised data
+0x270-0x7ff   not used
+============= =================
+
+general layout::
+
+        header  -   6 bytes,
+        data    - 356 bytes (checksum is byte sum of this data)
+        trailer -   6 bytes
+                  ---
+        total     368 bytes
+
+data area layout::
+
+        controller set up  -  20 bytes
+        boot configuration -  56 bytes (4x14 bytes)
+        device set up      - 128 bytes (16x8 bytes)
+        unused (spare?)    - 152 bytes (19x8 bytes)
+                             ---
+        total                356 bytes
+
+header::
+
+    00 00   - ?? start marker
+    64 01   - byte count (lsb/msb excludes header/trailer)
+    8e 0b   - checksum (lsb/msb excludes header/trailer)
+
+controller set up::
+
+    00 30 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 04 10 04 00 00
+		    |     |           |     |
+		    |     |           |      -- host ID
+		    |     |           |
+		    |     |            --Removable Media Support
+		    |     |               0x00 = none
+		    |     |               0x01 = Bootable Device
+		    |     |               0x02 = All with Media
+		    |     |
+		    |      --flag bits 2
+		    |        0x00000001= scan order hi->low
+		    |            (default 0x00 - scan low->hi)
+			--flag bits 1
+			0x00000001 scam enable
+			0x00000010 parity enable
+			0x00000100 verbose boot msgs
+
+remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my
+current set up for any of the controllers.
+
+default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM
+(Removable Media added Symbios BIOS version 4.09)
+
+boot configuration
+
+boot order set by order of the devices in this table::
+
+    04 00 0f 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 01 00 00 62 -- 1st controller
+    04 00 03 00 00 10 00 58 00 00 01 00 00 63    2nd controller
+    04 00 01 00 00 10 00 48 00 00 01 00 00 61    3rd controller
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    4th controller
+	|  |  |  |     |        |     |  |
+	|  |  |  |     |        |      ---- PCI io port adr
+	|  |  |  |     |         --0x01 init/scan at boot time
+	|  |  |  |      --PCI device/function number (0xdddddfff)
+	|  |   ----- ?? PCI vendor ID (lsb/msb)
+	    ----PCI device ID (lsb/msb)
+
+?? use of this data is a guess but seems reasonable
+
+remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my
+current set up
+
+default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM
+
+device set up (up to 16 devices - includes controller)::
+
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 - id 0
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00
+    0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 - id 15
+    |     |  |  |     |  |
+    |     |  |  |      ----timeout (lsb/msb)
+    |     |  |   --synch period (0x?? 40 Mtrans/sec- fast 40) (probably 0x28)
+    |     |  |                  (0x30 20 Mtrans/sec- fast 20)
+    |     |  |                  (0x64 10 Mtrans/sec- fast )
+    |     |  |                  (0xc8  5 Mtrans/sec)
+    |     |  |                  (0x00  asynchronous)
+    |     |   -- ?? max sync offset (0x08 in NVRAM on 53c810a)
+    |     |                         (0x10 in NVRAM on 53c875)
+    |      --device bus width (0x08 narrow)
+    |                         (0x10 16 bit wide)
+    --flag bits
+	0x00000001 - disconnect enabled
+	0x00000010 - scan at boot time
+	0x00000100 - scan luns
+	0x00001000 - queue tags enabled
+
+remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my
+current set up
+
+?? use of this data is a guess but seems reasonable
+(but it could be max bus width)
+
+default set up for 53c810a NVRAM
+default set up for 53c875 NVRAM
+
+				- bus width     - 0x10
+                                - sync offset ? - 0x10
+                                - sync period   - 0x30
+
+?? spare device space (32 bit bus ??)::
+
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  (19x8bytes)
+    .
+    .
+    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+
+default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM
+
+trailer::
+
+    fe fe   - ? end marker ?
+    00 00
+    00 00
+
+default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM
+
+17.3 Tekram NVRAM layout
+------------------------
+
+nvram 64x16 (1024 bit)
+
+Drive settings::
+
+    Drive ID 0-15 (addr 0x0yyyy0 = device setup, yyyy = ID)
+		(addr 0x0yyyy1 = 0x0000)
+
+	x x x x  x x x x  x x x x  x x x x
+		| | |      | |  | | | |
+		| | |      | |  | | |  ----- parity check   0 - off
+		| | |      | |  | | |                       1 - on
+		| | |      | |  | | |
+		| | |      | |  | |  ------- sync neg       0 - off
+		| | |      | |  | |                         1 - on
+		| | |      | |  | |
+		| | |      | |  |  --------- disconnect     0 - off
+		| | |      | |  |                           1 - on
+		| | |      | |  |
+		| | |      | |   ----------- start cmd      0 - off
+		| | |      | |                              1 - on
+		| | |      | |
+		| | |      |  -------------- tagged cmds    0 - off
+		| | |      |                                1 - on
+		| | |      |
+		| | |       ---------------- wide neg       0 - off
+		| | |                                       1 - on
+		| | |
+		    --------------------------- sync rate      0 - 10.0 Mtrans/sec
+							    1 -  8.0
+							    2 -  6.6
+							    3 -  5.7
+							    4 -  5.0
+							    5 -  4.0
+							    6 -  3.0
+							    7 -  2.0
+							    7 -  2.0
+							    8 - 20.0
+							    9 - 16.7
+							    a - 13.9
+							    b - 11.9
+
+Global settings
+
+Host flags 0 (addr 0x100000, 32)::
+
+    x x x x  x x x x  x x x x  x x x x
+    | | | |  | | | |           | | | |
+    | | | |  | | | |            ----------- host ID    0x00 - 0x0f
+    | | | |  | | | |
+    | | | |  | | |  ----------------------- support for    0 - off
+    | | | |  | | |                          > 2 drives     1 - on
+    | | | |  | | |
+    | | | |  | |  ------------------------- support drives 0 - off
+    | | | |  | |                            > 1Gbytes      1 - on
+    | | | |  | |
+    | | | |  |  --------------------------- bus reset on   0 - off
+    | | | |  |                                power on     1 - on
+    | | | |  |
+    | | | |   ----------------------------- active neg     0 - off
+    | | | |                                                1 - on
+    | | | |
+    | | |  -------------------------------- imm seek       0 - off
+    | | |                                                  1 - on
+    | | |
+    | |  ---------------------------------- scan luns      0 - off
+    | |                                                    1 - on
+    | |
+     -------------------------------------- removable      0 - disable
+                                            as BIOS dev    1 - boot device
+                                                           2 - all
+
+Host flags 1 (addr 0x100001, 33)::
+
+    x x x x  x x x x  x x x x  x x x x
+               | | |             | | |
+               | | |              --------- boot delay     0 -   3 sec
+               | | |                                       1 -   5
+               | | |                                       2 -  10
+               | | |                                       3 -  20
+               | | |                                       4 -  30
+               | | |                                       5 -  60
+               | | |                                       6 - 120
+               | | |
+                --------------------------- max tag cmds   0 -  2
+                                                           1 -  4
+                                                           2 -  8
+                                                           3 - 16
+                                                           4 - 32
+
+Host flags 2 (addr 0x100010, 34)::
+
+    x x x x  x x x x  x x x x  x x x x
+                                     |
+                                      ----- F2/F6 enable   0 - off ???
+                                                           1 - on  ???
+
+checksum (addr 0x111111)
+
+checksum = 0x1234 - (sum addr 0-63)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+default nvram data::
+
+    0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000
+    0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000
+    0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000
+    0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000
+
+    0x0f07 0x0400 0x0001 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
+    0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
+    0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
+    0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0xfbbc