Revisions For AlphaBIOS firmware updates for Alpha Station 255.

12/22/98 - Fizal Khan
    981222 - AlphaBIOS 5.68 release.
               Add PCI Configuration failure warnings; Changed Bad Address Error 
               Handling; Add in reset routine to networking support;  Add in PCI 
               configuration allowances for some non-compliant PCI adapters;  
               Networking services change for operating with Windows2000 servers;
	       Use old NCR driver to fix problems with formatting drives;Relax PCI
	       error handling to support some PCI devices;Add NT 5.0 Safeboot support.


7/06/97 - Carl McAdams

    980706 - AlphaBIOS 5.66 release. 
               Support was added under Advanced CMOS Settings to select buffer size
               mode used by HAL.  Choices are Legacy, Dynamic, and Server; Changes 
               were made to reduce boot time; Changes were made to improve the 
               configuration of QLogic and AdvanSys disk controllers; SCSI BIOS 
               emulation was added to CIA-based systems; Support for ATAPI devices 
               was improved via the incorporation of a new driver; A change was made 
               to limit AlphaBIOS use of pool to 8Mb; Return values for VenPrint() 
               and VenWPrint() (in the ADK) were corrected to return the byte count 
               of characters printed; Improvements were made to the AlphaBIOS 
               network update feature to prevent crashes and checksum errors, and to 
               improve performance; Support for new hardware types was added.

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3/26/98 - Carl McAdams

    980326 - AlphaBIOS 5.65 release.  
                Removal of 16bit I/O restriction for Device ROMs; Memory Test above 
                512MB; Modify Qlogic Adapter support to prevent SCSI Bus Reset after 
                AlphaBIOS setup; Change Max Arguments from 8 to 16; Gracefully 
                handle network errors during AlphaBIOS update;

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12/15/97 - Carl McAdams

    971215 - AlphaBIOS 5.64 release.  
                Networking Support, IDE ATAPI Drive Support-DMA enabling, 
                SCSI Mode select fix, Fix PPB config access 
                in BIOS emulator, Add support for platform specific firmware update
                method, Fix hard disk express format on disk already containing
                multiple partitions, Pass AdapterObject to HAL in scsiboot, 
                Fix firmware update helper routines to use platform ROM image 
                count when searching ROM image structure, Modify memory post 
                test to use new MEMTEST interface, User now may select 
                Disable/Partial/Full memory test.  CONTEXT_BLOCK is intialized
                when using a bootable disk, Added support for the "customiz" 
                utility, Add IDE configuration support for CY693U, Corrected 
                quadword checksum routine to handle buffer lengths not evenly 
                divisible by 8 bytes, add support to perform system reset during 
                restart, Allow access of CD-ROM's Root directory, Adjust NVRAM 
                updating dialog box.
