This file contains the Revision information for the Digital Personnal Workstation.

12/22/98 - Lynn Richardson
    981216.1153 - AlphaBIOS 5.68 release.

1)Release 5.68 of AlphaBIOS primarily addresses support for new hardware, support for Windows 2000 
features, serviceability support, and PCI configuration enhancements.
2)It eliminates some problems with PCI configurations and allows new peripherals to run correctly. 
3)Initialize the USB port properly. 
4)Includes all ACPI information required to boot Windows 2000. 
5)Checks for a video card before trying to get PCI configuration information about a video card. 
6)If a parallel port is configured in standard mode, do not report that an ECP port is present.  
Similarly, if a parallel port is configured as an ECP port, do not report that a parallel port is 
present. 
7)Exit the configuration mode in the SMC before returning the device status for COM1, COM2, or a 
floppy disk drive.
8)Enable SERR when an Alteon Gigabit ACEnic (1Gb Ethernet card) is the only card on the PCI bus; 
otherwise, disable SERR when this card is not the only one on the bus.
9)Abbreviate terms on the PCI Config menu to prevent truncation of those terms.
10)Add PCI configuration failure warnings to AlphaBIOS.  
11)On the PCI menu, highlight the PCI devices that failed so that the user can go to the advanced 
PCI menu for those devices and identify the resources, which failed for each device.
12)Add support for Ultra DMA with the AcerLabs IDE controller, and update the PCI configuration code 
to support the Polaris core logic and the Acer Labs PCI-ISA bridge chip.  
13)Update the DHCP client by removing code that obtains the server IP address from the option field 
of the DHCP packet.
14)Set the DHCP client to get the TFTP server IP address from the server field and do not allow the 
IP address to be overwritten with the server name.  
15)Adjust the UDP to read the size from UPD header.
16)Add a Reset routine and change the DC21X4 Driver Entry and Initialize routine, allowing the driver to 
initialize a network card that was not initialized at start up or to reinitialize a network card after it 
was shut down.
17)Add double error halt logging to HAL, AlphaBIOS (for Turbolaser and common code), and the Windows 2000 
event log.
18)During debug, update the error logging callback API to allow frame sizes to be transferred between the 
HAL and AlphaBIOS.
19)Ensure that Power-up Memory Test changes in advanced CMOS setup are preserved when saved.



8/20/98 - Carl McAdams
    980820 - AlphaBIOS 5.67 release. 
               Add in Advanced CMOS settings for on-board sound; Relax PCI error 
               handling of non-compliant PCI resources in order to provide support 
               for Gerber Woodbridge device; Provide serviceability server 
               managment warning; Add NT 5.0 Safeboot support; Impove double error 
               halt handler; Revert back to previous NCR driver to fix problems 
               with formatting drives; Improve the HWRPB table for better 
               backwards-compatiblity; Fix networking driver for older 21140 
               devices; Allow Oxygen 202 on older Digital Personal Workstation's 
               primary bus. 

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 were added.


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; Cypress IDE initialization retry added; Work-around for  
                PowerStorm 4D30T VGA; Add 4D10T, Hitachi graphics sub-system, 
                Colorgraphics Evolution-2, and all non-DMA devices to Miata's 
                Primary Bus List; Add latency for PCI SMC Devices; PCI 64 bit 
                bus reset; POST flash update support; Disable EISA DMA; Identify
                Miata ECO changes; USB Interupt Support; USB Configuration Support


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 (Gloria-M Gloria-L 
                Gloria-L/MX Gloria-XL Gloria-S TI Permedia 2 or Gloria-synergy 
                TI Permedia 2 and a card for Dainippon Screen Engineering of 
                America), 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.
                

9/29/97 - Ed Serrano

    970929 - AlphaBIOS 5.34 release. Issue Mode Select to DEC CD-ROM's to change 
             block size to PC standard (2K). Fix pool relocation for case when 
             memory descriptor  adjacent to 512M is not type MemoryFree. Add 
             Intergraph support.  Updated Qlogic driver.

9/03/97 - Ed Serrano

    970903 - AlphaBIOS 5.33 release with modifications to SIO chip PCI Arbiter 
                Priority Control register (instead of setting 0xF0, set 0x38) 
                and to PCI Arbiter Priority Control Ext. register (set 0x1)
             Qlogic write back hack.

7/15/97 - Ed Serrano

    970715 - AlphaBIOS 5.31 releasable that contains the following fixes among 
                others.
	     Add support for Eclipse and P2 cards
             Save SIO configuration after hard reset; reset PCI bus and 
                reconfigure SIO after restart.
             Ignore Open Firmware ROM adapters.
             Restore order of drives as same as NT-- ATAPI


