This week the updates are going to be less exciting but nonetheless very important, and the first point talks about that in more details.

THE BUILD HAS CHANGED - READ ME
We're putting this as the first and in red so people see it. The LKM build now requires a version to be specified. We know this will break the @haydibe toolchain but we're sure he will fix it quickly as this is a small change. For reasons why read further.

Also, if you used a hack to "fix" the Info Center on 3515xs make sure to read "Hardware monitoring emulation" section carefully.

A roadmap
Lets first address why this week is less exciting: we spent most of the time testing various scenarios and tracking hidden-yet-missed bugs. This is most likely the second to last round of updates before we release a beta version. The beta version can be used in a day-to-day testing and should be free of dangerous crashes (ok, maybe except that strange kernel lookup - we're looking into it). In the beta some features may still be missing but overall we're already testing a few instances and it's looking good

We don't have an official roadmap as someone here asked. However, this is the rough list of things we want to address in that order:

1. Custom drivers support*: there's a hack discussed here to add drivers to a ramdisk. However, this isn't a sustainable solution for many reasons. Mainly the reason is a very limited size. The current ramdisk, especially on systems without compression, is almost at the limit and on slower systems can crash with even a few megabytes more added to it. This seems to be especially unstable on v7 Linux v4 kernel. The solution we're working on will simply include modules on the partition which are loaded in pre-boot and copied to the main OS partition on boot. Naturally from the perspective of the user it will involve simply adding a line to user_conf and dropping a file in "custom". For people digging deeper it will be also much easier as this involves no repacking: simply mount the partition and drop more files in and they will be copied 1:1 and loaded as needed.
2. Full SAS support*: while cheap HBA cards are great and something we actually will recommend for home builds (as they're cheap, stable, and offer 4-6 ports), LSI is king for bigger arrays. We want to make sure these are working as intended making both DSM and Linux happy (which isn't easy in v7 ;)).
3. UEFI support*: there are board which cannot boot in legacy mode. We want to fully test this and offer an official UEFI support in the RedPill.
4. Add support for newest revisions of the OS to 918+ and 3615xs*
5. Step-by-step instruction*/**: essentially we want you guys to help us test not only the code but also a guide
   

   
   

   
   

    It will be published alongisde the beta version. We will prepare it in a form of a GH page so that we can easily incorporate feedback (as we cannot edit posts after ~1h). After we resolve problems with it we will go ahead and publish an RC version on the main forum so that it becomes an official version released for usage by less experienced folks who still want to poke around the OS.
6. Integrate build process into the main repository**: @haydibe is doing an AMAZING job here and we cannot thank him enough. As we discussed with him before we want to incorporate the docker directly into the redpill-load repo and enable LKM builds on GH, so that everything is automated and synchronized as soon as we publish an update.
7. Small fixes: add native support for CPU governor, fix CPU detection to match the model (as some things on v7 react strangely if the CPU doesn't match the model), fix various internal code-smells in the kernel code
8. Add support for GPU acceleration: in short we want to explore adding platform like DVA3221
9. AMD support: let's just say we aren't fans of Intel recently
   

   
   

   
   

    We want to add a model which natively supports AMD CPUs
10. Work on making mfgBIOS LEDs/buzzers/hwmon stuff more real or at least publish an interface which can be used by others to add an arduino or similar.

Things marked with * are aimed to be done by the beta release. Things marked with ** we are HOPING to get done before the beta but we cannot promise

Redpill 개발자가 추후 개발 로드맵을 공개하였습니다.

1. 커스텀 드라이버 추가 기능 지원

2. 전 SAS 제품 지원

3. UEFI 지원

4. 918+ 및 3615XS 에 대해 새로운 버전의 OS 지원

5. 부트로더 생성하기위한 메뉴얼 업데이트

6. 빌드를 위한 저장소 통합

7. 버그수정(특히 시피유 관련)

8. GPU 추가기능 지원

9. AMD CPU 지원

10. mfgBIOS LEDs/Buzzers/hwmon 작업중

아직 정확한 날짜는 정하지않았지만..

현재 개발자분이 진행중이라고 합니다.