From: kingman@austin.ibm.com (John Kingman) Subject: Item #339: Administrivia: OFWG Agenda for April/May Meeting Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:58:03 -0500 (CDT) P1275 Open Firmware Working Group Proposal -- Proposal #339 Ver Title: OFWG Agenda for April/May Meeting Author: John Kingman Dear Open Firmware Working Group Members, Attached is the agenda for the Open Firmware Working Group meeting to be held at IBM, Austin, TX on Tuesday April 30, 1996 and Wednesday May 1, 1996. See below for directions to the meeting. Please check below for any Action Items assigned to you. For those with Action Items who cannot come to the meeting, please send me the status of your item(s) by e-mail by 8:00AM Central Time Monday, April 29, 1996. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Times are Central Daylight Savings Time: Tuesday April 30, 1996 9:15AM - Meet at IBM, (see note below for directions) Light breakfast to be provided by IBM. 9:30AM 1 - Introduction 2 - Review Agenda 3 - Administrative/Procedural Items 4 - Review and approve minutes from the last meeting 5 - Future Meetings 6 - Standard Progress Report P1275.3 (VME - IEEE 1014 bus) P1275.6: 64-bit Extension Supplement for Open Firmware - Status on experimental compatibility work from David Kahn and/or Mitch Bradley (Action Item #5) P1275.a Errata to 1275-1994 (Core Errata) 7 - Action Items Review (see note below) 8 - Other Pending/Tabled items 12:00M - Break for LUNCH 1:00PM 9 - Proposal Status Review 10 - Document Reviews (including associated proposals, if any) PCI Bus Binding Recommended Practices Generic Names Interrupt Mapping Network Support 5:00PM - Break for the day Wednesday May 1, 1996 9:15AM - Meet at IBM Light breakfast to be provided by IBM. 9:30AM 10 - Document Reviews (cont'd) Recommended Practices (cont'd) Forth and FCode ISA/EISA/ISA PNP Bus Binding PowerPC Processor Binding Device Support Extensions 12:00M - Break for LUNCH 1:00PM - New Proposals 2:00PM - Introduction to CHRP Bindings 3:30PM - Summarize/Assign action items and Wrap up 4:00PM - Adjourn NOTES: ------ Action Items: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | No.|Who |Description | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 1 |Ron H. |Check on TI licensing/royalty on NuBus that may | | | |provide a path to solve the patent issue. | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 2 |Editors of |Update document template and contents per discussion. | | |Recommended | | | |Practice | | | |documents | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 4 |David K. |Standard properties document. | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 5 |David K. |Report on 64-bit experimental work. | | |Mitch B. | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 6 |Ron H. |Work on "reg"/"assigned-addresses"/base address | | |David K. |registers in the PCI binding. | | |Greg | | | |Jordan B. | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 7 |Jordan B. |Work on names, unit-address... in ISA binding | | |Lilian W. | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 9 |Mitch B. |Work on tristatable bit | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 11 |Jordan B. |Reorganize discussion of probing in ISA binding | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 12 |Jordan B. |Suggest wording for IRQ 2 vs 9 | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 14 |Jordan B. |Edit sound stuff | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 15 |Ron H. |Update ranges properties and usage in PCI binding | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 17 |Ron H. |Prepare proposal for Code Page selection. | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 18 |David K. |Clarify subcommittee feedback loop | | |John K. | | | |Bob C. | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 19 |David K. |Update status of remanded items & documents | | |John K. | | | |Bob C. | | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 20 |Ron H. |Update Proposal #308 as amended | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 21 |Ron H. |Update Proposal #310 with new wording (talk to Tom | | | |Caron) | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 22 |Ron H. |Update PCI Binding 4.2.1 for non-relocatable PCI | | | |devices (see #323a above) | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 23 |Greg H. |recommended practice for output devices (e.g. VGA) | | | |talk to Mitch Bradley (see #323b above) | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 24 |Ron H. |talk to Mitch Bradley to clarify line-end for #322 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subcommittee Action Items: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | S1 |Bob C. | Update Generic Names Recommended Practice | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S2 |Ron H. | Update and create v1.1 Forth and FCode Rec Practice | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S3 |John K. | Produce PPC Processor v1.10 draft | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S4 |Bob C. | Make "shared-bus-master" proposal | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S5 |Ron H. | Make "chording" proposal | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S6 |Bob C. | Produce new Device Support Extensions draft | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S7 |Bob C. | Produce 0.2 Draft of ISA binding | |----|------------|------------------------------------------------------| | S8 |Mitch B. | Propose that debug facilities not be supported | | | | in real-mode. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions and hotel information: The meeting will be held in Dining Rooms A/B of Building 045 which is the rusty looking building on the corner of Burnet Road and Braker Lane. If you haven't been to the site before, here are some general directions. The IBM main site is located in northwest Austin. The main north/south arteries are Interstate 35 and Loop 1 (also called MoPac) and each has an exit for Braker Lane. From I35, go west to Burnet Road and turn right. From Loop 1 go east to Burnet Road and turn left. Take a left into the entrance at Kramer Lane and then an immediate left again. You should see signs directing you to Building 045. The entrance to the building is on the north side and there is visitor parking near the entrance. Nearby hotels include the Stouffer Hotel (800-433-2241) and Holiday Inn Northwest (800-465-4329). For more Austin information, check ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com/pub/OpenFirmware/misc/austin.html [ P1275 Item #339 -- Received: Mon Apr 22 12:56:43 PDT 1996 ]