WHAT'S NEW?

May 10, 2005.

Proposal Update.

Proposals have been updated. Note proposal 516.

Updated Documents.

Table of Contents.

Feb 12, 1999.

Proposal/Status Update.

Proposals, proposal status, minutes, etc. have been updated.

Meeting Schedule Updated.

The meeting schedule has been updated.

Updated Documents.

Ron submitted two updated documents:

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Feb 2, 1998.

Proposal/Status Update.

Proposals, proposal status, minutes, etc. have been updated.

Meeting Schedule Updated.

The meeting schedule has been updated.

New Binding Sections.

Created new binding sections for the following supplements:

CHRP Platform Binding Version 1.8 Posted

CHRP Platform binding, accepted version 1.8 has been posted.

Table of Contents.

Sep 15, 1997.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Documentation available online

The Commercially Available Documentation section has been updated to reflect that Sun's documentation is now available on the internet.

Proposal/Status Update.

Proposals, proposal status, minutes, etc. have been updated.

Meeting Schedule Updated.

The meeting schedule has been updated.

Additional Core Errata Changes.

As authorized by proposal #404 the Additional Core Errata page has been updated with the SCSI Annex medium not present should not be retryable change.

Standard Property: dma-ranges

As authorized by proposal #410 the recommended practice page has been updated to include a reference to the dma-ranges property.

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Mar 28, 1997.

EWS Searchable Index

A searchable index is now available. Currently, this feature is available only on the Sun Microsystems internal mirror, at noho.eng.sun.com..

The search is implemented using the Excite Web Server. The index includes text and html documents.

Proposal/Status Update.

Proposals, proposal status, minutes, etc. have been updated.

Meeting Schedule Updated.

The meeting schedule has been updated. Note that the April, 1997 meeting has been cancelled.

Additional Core Errata Changes.

As authorized by proposal #396 the Additional Core Errata page has been updated with the SCSI max-transfer correction to Annex E.

Commercially Available Documentation

As requested by Greg Hill an additional document, Open Firmware Client Interface Developer's Guide, has been added to the Firmworks section of Commercially Available Documentation. (Remove '-xxx' to use email address.)

VME Bus Binding Update

As requested, I finally posted David Paktor's update to the Vme Binding, including the ballot comments and David's draft replies. To refresh your memory, this is the version currently under consideration as a working group recommended practice. (Remove '-xxx' to use email address.)

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Jan 6, 1997.

Site Update.

The recommended practice page has been updated with a more detailed table of contents. This along with the quick index on the home page should make it faster to find specific documents.

Updated Documents Posted.

Approved versions of the following recommended practice documents have been posted:

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Dec 23, 1996.

Updated Documents Posted.

Version 1.0 of the SCSI-3 Parallel Interface recommended practice has been posted.

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Nov 14, 1996.

Salt Lake City Meeting Info

Hotel reservation information has been posted to the Working Group Meeting Information page. Note that reservations must be made before December 20th.

Additional Errata Document Created

Workoing group proposal #389 authorizes the creation of a page for addtional core errata.

Updated Documents Posted.

New versions of the following documents (including delta documents from the editor) have been posted:

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Sep 24, 1996.

Updated Documents Posted.

New versions of the following documents (including delta documents from the editor) have been posted:

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Aug 29, 1996.

Updated Documents Posted.

New versions of the following documents have been posted:

Table of Contents.

Aug 7, 1996.

Updated Documents Posted.

New versions of the following documents have been posted:

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July 31, 1996.

New PPC Binding.

Revision 2.0 of the Power PC binding is now available in HTML and Postscript. A change description document is also available. Note that this is an accepted revision of this document.

Table of Contents.

July 15, 1996.

Interrupt Mapping, Draft 0.9

Draft 0.9 of the Interrupt Mapping recommended practice has been posted to the recommended practice page.

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July 10, 1996.

Device Support Externsions

Device Support Extensions was moved from the main bindings section to the recommended practice page.

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June 17, 1996.

Document Updates

The following document updates were submitted by the editor.

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June 4, 1996.

Documents Now Available in HTML

Thanks to John Kingman for providing html versions of the following documents.

Interrupt Mapping Recommended Practice

The unapproved, draft document Interrupt Mapping is being carried as a draft on the recommended practice page.

CHRP Device Bindings

New versions of the following CHRP Device Bindings were provided by the editor:

Table of Contents.

May 10, 1996.

New Device Bindings

Several (eight) device binding documents referencing CHRP have been posted to a new section: Device Bindings.

Thanks to John Kingman, the bindings are available in both postscript and html. Some of the table formatting in the html versions needs work, but overall, the conversion went fairly well.

Proposal Status Update

All proposal status is up to date in the proposals section.

Proposals Organization

The proposals section has been internally revamped. There should be no difference in the visible content.

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May 8, 1996.

CHRP Platform Binding

Unapproved draft Version 1.5 of the PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) has been posted.

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Apr 23, 1996.

PCI Bus Supplement

Draft Version 1.7 of the PCI Bus Supplement has been posted.

Table of Contents.

Apr 22, 1996.

Site Organization.

Since you're reading this, you figured out that I split out the the WhatsNew section from the main document. Congratulations ;)

Table of Contents.

Apr 19, 1996.

Updated Documents.

Device Support Extensions.

Device Support Extensions version 0.6 draft, Apr 11, 1996, has been posted and is now available. Editor's notes for this version are available.

ISA/EISA/ISA-PNP Binding.

ISA/EISA/ISA-PNP Bus Supplement Draft version 0.2, Apr 12, 1996, has been posted and is now available. Editor's notes for this version are available.

ISA/EISA/ISA-PNP Binding.

Generic Names Recommended Practice Unapproved Draft version 1.1, Apr 11, 1996, has been posted and is now available. Editor's notes for this version are available.

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Apr 18, 1996.

New Mirror Site and Changes to Site Organization.

Mirror At Apple Computer Inc.

Thanks and kudos do David "Lefty" Schlesinger and Apple Computer Inc for hosting our new mirror site: http://chrp.apple.com/1275/.

Site Organization

If you maintain external links to specific sections of this site's web pages, then this applies to you.

The main page, known as index.html is now an entry page asking you to select a site. The main content page is now known as "/open-firmware/home.html" at both sites. Note that this may require some changes to those linking to specific sections of the main pages ... please add home.html to those links and remove the "/pub/1275" part of that path, which is no longer necesary or desired at either site.

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Mar 29, 1996.

Proposal Section Organization and Proposal Template.

The proposals section has been reorganized and now includes binding committee status.

The proposal template has been updated with special instructions for anybody submitting proposals with attachments. Please make sure you have the proposal template dated Mar 29, 1996 if you need to submit proposals including attachments.

New PPC Draft Binding.

Draft 1.10 Power PC binding is now available.

Access Counters.

Access counters have been added to all pages.

Table of Contents.

Feb 28, 1996.

Device Support Extensions.

Device Support Extensions Draft version 0.5, Feb 28, 1996, has been posted and is now available.

ISA/EISA/ISA-PNP Binding.

ISA/EISA/ISA-PNP Bus Supplement Draft version 0.1, Feb 28, 1996, has been posted and is now available.

Table of Contents.

Feb 15, 1996.

PowerPC Bindings Updated.

The Instruction Set Architecture Supplements section, and specifically the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture Supplements section were revamped so we could represent both the latest draft and the latest accepted versions of the documents. There's also a link to browse the directories for older versions. The editor's notes describing the changes for each document are now included in this section.

New draft and accepted versions of the Power PC bindings are now available.

When supplied by the document editor, there are editor's notes html files in the Power PC bindings directories.

Working Group Organization

Updated the Working Group Organization section to refect that we have a new Secretary.

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