From: Michael Segapeli Subject: Item #325: Amended PowerPC Committee meeting minutes 1/17/96 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 96 12:46:36 -0600 P1275 Open Firmware Working Group Proposal -- Proposal #325 Ver 2 Title: Minutes of PowerPC Open Firmware Committee meeting 1/17/96. Author: Mike Segapeli Date: March 4, 1996 Ed/Tech: Editorial Synopsis: Amended Minutes for 1/17/96 meeting held at Motorola-Austin. Proposal: NOTE: Changes marked by '>' in first column. Hello, Here are the minutes for the second day of the 1275 OFWG meetings held at Motorola- Austin on 1/17/96. Attendees: Mitch Bradley FirmWorks/President (415)961-1302 wmb@firmworks.com Chairman Open Firmware Working Group David M. Kahn Sun Microsystems (415)336-2784 dmk@Eng.Sun.Com Vice Chairman Open Firmware Working Group John Kingman IBM RSD Architecture(512)838-1546 kingman@austin.ibm.com Secretary Open Firmware Working Group Luan Nguyen IBM IMD Arch. (512)838-1292 duyluan@austin.ibm.com Ron Hochsprung Apple/Sys. Arch. (408)974-2661 ron@apple.com Mike Segapeli IBM RSD Firmware (512)838-8428 mikes@austin.ibm.com Jordan Brown Sunsoft (310)348-6039 jordan.brown@west.sun.com Chris M Bellman Adaptec, Inc. (408)945-8600 cbellman@corp.adpatec.com Kip McClanahan Motorola MMTG (512)891-6525 kip-mcclanahan@risc.sps.mot.c om Satoru Mamiya FirePower Systems (415)462-3009 mamiya@Firepower.com Matt Hill Sun (415)786-5321 matt.hill@sun.com Jim Wooldridge IBM (206)803-5804 jwooldridge@austin.ibm.com Rick Foos Motorola (512)891-3084 rfoos@ntgate.sps.moto.com John Southard Motorola (512)891-6236 southard@ntgate.sps.mot.com Judy Ho Motorola (512)891-6325 judyh@ntgate.sps.mot.com Bruce Rosenkrantz Motorola (602)345-7128 brosen@phx.mcd.mot.com Eric Rainbolt Motorola (512)891-7210 eric_rainbolt@risc.sps.mot.co m Review Agenda: - Change agenda to accomodate 'Veneer' NT Meeting - Procedure Change Proposal + Establish time limit for discussion (5 minutes) + Work thru lunch - Cut meeting off at 2:00PM for NT 'Veneer' Meeting Agenda accepted as ammended - Minutes accepted as written. - AI Review: 1 Ron to create proposal on recognizing Forth and FCode image formats. Status: Almost done; Ron 2 Parallel Port Read Method.(Mike S) Status: No progress 3 Mitch to send Mike updated ELF format description. Status: Done 4 Mitch to send Mike ammended text for Item 289 "Support for multi-initiator SCSI". Status: Done 5 Mike to forward to David Kahn Approved changes to Core Errata. Status: Done 6 Luan to send Mike updated text for MP section of PPC Binding. Status: Done 7 Ron to prepare proposal for Code Page selection. Status: No progress - Discussion about how to get bindings accepted; remove draft name once committee has accepted. Put on playground for distribution. - Agenda: 1) Review PPC Pocessor binding: Version 1.6 draft - p10; l12 - must to shall - p10; l17 - font problem - p13; S6 - p14; l25 - fix hex encode statement Makes changes as editorial changes; Version 1.8 Approved 2) no changes to PReP binding 3) Review Device Support Extension binding Move to accept changes and editorial changes; accepted Go to 0.5; next draft is 0.6. Proposals: #298: Accepted as ammended Jordan to draft "binding" Ammendments: - change DS,1385 to ds1385-nvram - Make note about different structure for "reg" property in existing implemenation. #299: Accepted Jordan to draft "PC Keyboard Binding" #300: Withdrawn #301: Accepted as ammended Amendments: Delete section titled "Additional Requirements" 8042 device binding to be created. Brian? #302: Accept as ammended Amendments: Change floppy to fdc node name and device type. Clarification: Alias floppy refers to primary floppy drive #305: Proposal separated into three sections: 305A - Template for device bindings. Accepted 305B - Serial Device Binding proposal. Accepted Need to add generic parameters in device extension document for the open method for serial port. Make into draft binding document. 305C - Closed. Remainder of text to be resubmitted as separate proposals. Proposals on agenda but handled in Day 1 (See the minutes for the first day published in proposal #309): #291: Accepted as ammended #294: Accepted as ammended #295: Tabled #296: Accepted as amended #297: Accepted as amended #300: Withdrawn by author #304: Withdrawn by author replaced by 305 > Review Power PC Binding 1.6 Draft > Document approved as ammended. Editor directed to create Revision 1.8. > > Proposal #306 (See Secretary's note below) > Title: "PowerPC Processor Binding Update". > Author: John Kingman. > > This proposal was presented to the committee as PowerPC Processor Binding > Revision 1.7 Draft. > > Accepted as amended. > > Editor directed to create PowerPC Processor Binding Revision 1.9 Draft from > the amended changes of Proposal #306. > > SECRETARY'S NOTE: This proposal was originally assigned a temporary > proposal number (960117) at the committee meetings. Later proposal #306 was > formally assigned. [ P1275 Item #325 -- Received: Mon Mar 4 10:45:08 PST 1996 ]