From rlarndt@us.ibm.com Tue Mar 9 13:43:53 1999 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:43:28 -0600 Subject: Item #461: Minutes OFWG meeting 9 March 99 P1275 Openboot Working Group Proposal -- Proposal #:461 Title: Minutes OFWG meeting 9 March 99 Author: Richard L. Arndt Date: 9 March 99 Ed/Tech: Technical Synopsis: Minutes of the Open Firmware Working Group Meeting of 9 March 1999 held at FirmWorks Mountain View, Ca. Doc & Version: NA Problem: NA. Proposal: Agenda for March 9, 1999 Meeting at FirmWorks Mountain View, Ca. Host: Mitch Bradley Starting Time: 10 AM. Establish quorum & Voting rights 6 in physical attendance + 1 phone all voting |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Name: |Company: |E-Mail | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Richard Arndt |IBM |rlarndt@us.ibm.com | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Mitch Bradley |FirmWorks |wmb@firmworks.com | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Ron Hochsprung |Apple |ron@apple.com | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |David Kahn |Sun |DMK@Eng.Sun.Com | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Thomas Merrit |Codegen |tjm@codegen.com | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Michael Milendorf |Sun | | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| |Paul Thomas |Sun |Paul.Thomas@eng.sun.co| | | |m | |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------| Review Agenda: Add Administrivia item 5 to this and future Approve Minutes of September 1, 1998 Meeting (Item #447): Approved as submitted Future Meetings: The next meeting scheduled: |----------------------------------+----------------------------------| |Date |Host Location | |----------------------------------+----------------------------------| |September 14, 1999 |FirmWorks Mountain View, Ca. | |----------------------------------+----------------------------------| |March 14, 2000 |FirmWorks Mountain View, Ca. | |----------------------------------+----------------------------------| | | | |----------------------------------+----------------------------------| The work group officers reserves the right to call additional meetings via the OFWG reflector as required Administrivia: A new web page mirror sight has been created by CodeGen at www.openfirmware.org Ron H. inquired as to the interest by other work group members in AGP. Specifically, should this be handled as a new binding or a feature of the PCI binding? There was feed back from various members but no specific action taken. ANSI Forth reaffirmation report by Mitch Bradley: Changes in character definitions for internationalization plus other minor extensions. Targeted to be complete the end of 1999. Status of Action Items: |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |Action Item |Assigned to: |Description |Status | |Number: | | | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |2 |Editors of |Update document |Continuing | | |Recommended |template and | | | |Practice |contents per | | | |Documents |discussion. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |33 |Mitch B. |Propose |Closed: Lack of| | | |display-modes |interest | | | |property along | | | | |with set & read | | | | |display modes | | | | |methods. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |43 |Mitch B |Look into the |Open | | | |reaffirmation of| | | | |IEEE 1275 | | | | |standard. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |44 |Mitch B |Ship latest |Closed: Lack | | | |version of ARM |of interest | | | |binding for | | | | |posting. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |45 |David K. |To post |Closed: | | | |clarification |Completed | | | |per #440 | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |46 |Ron H. |Ship TFTP |Closed: | | | |approved draft |Completed | | | |to David for | | | | |posting. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| |47 |Ron H. |Ship PCI |Closed: | | | |approved |Completed | | | |revision to | | | | |David for | | | | |posting. | | |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------| Motion: Authorize Mitch Bradley to request IEEE to reaffirm 1275 as stands New Proposals: Item #448 Clarification on ABORT function description The proposal is amend to de passed 7/0/0 Item #449 Clarification on ABORT function description The committee agrees that the one line description of abort is misleading and, however, the full text description is correct. 7/0/0 Item #457 Ad find-fcode to USB binding Proposal rejected -- vote: 1/4/2 Item #458 64-bit Extension Wordset is incomplete Withdrawn by the author. [ P1275 Item #461 -- Received: Tue Mar 9 13:43:54 PST 1999 ]