Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 18:06:26 PDT From: dmk (David Kahn) Subject: Item #266: Recommended Practice (Core, PCI): Revisit Generic Names #251 P1275 Open Firmware Working Group Proposal -- Proposal #266 Ver Title: Revisit Generic Names Recomended Practice (re: #251) Author: David Kahn Date: 19 April 1995 Ed/Tech: Technical Synopsis: Revisit the decision on proposal #251 Doc & Version: Appected Proposal Number 251.Item Scope: Recomended Practice Problem: If proposal 251 (generic names) will not be adopted by this body as a recomended practice, the committee should revisit that decision and recommend against #251. Proposal: Change the status of proposal #251 to rejected. (Initially accepted, but subsequently rejected.) Discussion ... Proposal #251 was adopted as a recommended practice at the last working group meeting, and has significant impact on the current work of various companies. Apple will not be able to support #251 in documentation or in the OS. It's also not likely for Sun to get this support into our next OS, either. It became clear that #251 would not be adopted accross the industry after the meeting. I think the body should revisit the decision to support proposal #251. It would be nice if we can come up with a way to support a better form of names on PCI than the default pci,, in conjunction with the current standards. Alternatively, come up with better aliasing mechanisms, and graphical views of the device tree, with pop-up information giving the device_type and properties of each device node, to solve the ease-of-use issues. All of these methods could be adopted as value added enhancements, using the current standard plus extensions voted as recommended practices at the last meeting. [ P1275 Item #266 -- Received: Wed Apr 19 18:06:28 PDT 1995 ]