ToDo

support for Execute in Place ("XIP") for nommu flavor (needs completely position independent code ("PIC") support by the Compiler)
support for "thread" keyword
support for MMU-based architecture

Every pieces of nios2 code should be reviewed and compared again those of m68knommu or other arch.
Files to be revised:
- file1...
- file2...
Coding style clean up.
Optional MPU support.
Optional "full" Linux with MMU
Would providing architecture specific "atomic" code instead of using the code in "asm-general" be beneficial ?
Is there a way to support hardware for some atomic instructions for Kernel mutex/spinlioc and FUTEX ? (see multi-threading)

All drivers should use platform driver model.
Drivers to be revised:
- driver1...
- driver2...
Opencore I2C driver, there is the driver in mainline kernel, but we need platform data and testing.
=== done, also all drivers are in new driver form mainline ===
SPI driver, the old one is useless. The new one should be developed.
=== is the driver that supports SPI for the NEEK touchscreen and SD-Card good enough for general applications ? ===
DMA interface driver, the old one is useless.
NEEK LCD framebuffer
=== done ===
NEEK touch screen driver
=== done ===
"programmable timer" driver for "tickless Linux" (the appropriate hardware needs to be designed, too)
ioremap as a macro to inline it if nommu

Add NEEK to board selection
=== done ===
When XIP is available move as many apps as possible into busybox by default (init, shell, ...)
When XIP is available use hush as a better shell than sash by default
Makefile glitch: 10 times "Making symlinks in include/". Once seems to be enough.
=== done ===
Better integration of the definition of the ptf file to be used (no "make vendor_hwselect" necessary after "make clean")

Compiling error when gdb-server is activate
=== partly solved:
gdbserver is not enabled as default any more
gdbserver (old) - which does not support multithreadding - can be used ===
More "user friendly" FTP server by enabling ls in busybox on default and adding password for root (and a user uclinux) in passwd
Start inetd and boa in rc on default (no harm done, if they can't run due to not Ethernet configured)
"haserl" does not compile (Makefile problem)
=== partly solved === (On some systems a dummy file "NEWS" seems to be necessary.)
"haserl" does not work
=== partly solved === (After adding a line syslog("Haserl start") in main() it works due to a miracle. It only works if the syslog daemon is running)
=== solved === (with boa 0.94.14 the problem magically disappeared)
"haserl" very slow
=== solved === (by using hush instead of msh. An even better solution would need XIP for the busybox tools other than echo and test / "[" )
Support for dynamic linking
Beside potential space and speed benefits this would solve some queer licensing issues regarding glibc.

NPTL
provide a decent architecture-aware "atomic" code for FUTEX (disble interrupt -> do stuff -> enable interrupt) instead of using the code in "asm-general". This is a decent way to go if no MPU is used, as di/ei can be done in user land. If with "full" Linux the MPU is activated (and thus di/ei is privilidged and only executable in Kernel space) we would need to have hardware support for some atomic instructions.
at best have Altera add some atomic instructions to the NIOS arch
debugging support for Multithreading by fixing "gdbserver" instead of falling back to "gdbserver (old)"
"thread" keyword in gcc

remote debugging user space application via Kernel based GDB stub
- fixing "gdbserver" instead of falling back to "gdbserver (old)"
- using a serial link alternatively to Ethernet
- debugging Multi-threaded Applications does not seem to be possible at all (very high priority !)
- integration in NIOS II Studio
debugging the Kernel and Kernel modules
- integration in NIOS II Studio

"make help" should create a decent output. At least listing the available make targets including the "_only" and "_clean" stuff.
how to modify the various real-time configuration files
- RC (easy: /vendor)
- passwd (easy: /vendor)
- initd.conf
- services
- stuff in vendors/Altera/nios2nommu/romfs_list
- ...
inittab / rc
=== see appropriate Wiki page ===
how to save the Kernel and application/library configuration in a way that it survives a "git checkout -f" or "git clean -d" or "make real_clean" (easy: "make menuconfig" -> "Update Default Vendor Settings") noves the configguration files into /Vendor)
...

Have Altera and/or SLS and/or WindRiver mirror (or run) the GIT server (with HTTP support)
Communicate with SLS and/or WindRiver about company <-> community collaboration and preserving a common code base (especially regarding the MMU-enabled tiool suite)
Suggest NIOS arch for inclusion into the main line Kernel
Method to assign to-do issues to programmers and to track progress
A great deal of the necessary documentation is not specific to the NIOS arch. There should be a central uCLinux-dist documentation Wiki for that.