Technical: Developer Documentation: Q&As

Hardware Contents

• hw63 - Which Machines Support Driver Services Library and the MP Nanokernel? - (12-July-1999)
  
• hw62 - Difference between PCCard SDK2 and SDK3 - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw61 - The AAPL,slot-name property and PCI - (Updated 19-April-1999)
  
• hw60 - Determining the version of Open Firmware on your Mac - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw59 - Why did the name of the PCI bridge change? - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw58 - What is a tokenizer? - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw57 - Stopping Forth command scrolls - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw56 - Determining Open Firmware configuration variables - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw55 - PCI SIG - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw54 - if and then in Forth - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw53 - Getting started with Forth - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw52 - Converting a numeric string to a number under Forth - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw51 - dl command in 1 machine mode - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw50 - Expansion ROM device properties - (29-Mar-1999)
  
• hw49 - Detecting specific ROM-in-RAM Mac - (Updated 05-October-1999)
  
• hw48 - Booting after invoking the Open Firmware user interface - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw47 - Difference between using Restart or Shut Down in the Finder’s Special menu in Open Firmware - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw46 - Difference between an Open Firmware word and method - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw45 - Invoking the Open Firmware user interface - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw44 - Are interrupts enabled while Open Firmware is running? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw43 - Do PowerBooks have a PCI bus? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw42 - PCI bus on the iMac - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw41 - Is there a relationship between the device tree and the Name Registry? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw40 - Changing the configuration variable in Open Firmware - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw39 - How does Open Firmware generate the name property? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw38 - What are configuration variables in Open Firmware? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw37 - Switching between one and two machine mode for the Open Firmware user interface - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw36 - What is meant by 1 machine mode verses 2 machine mode with respect to Open Firmware? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw35 - What are snag keys in Open Firmware? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw34 - What are generic names in Open Firmware? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw33 - What are NewWorld and Open Firmware version 3? - (15-Feb-1999)
  
• hw32 - Differences between iMac models - (25-Jan-1999)
  
• hw31 - UpTime’s values are consistently slow? - (19-Oct-98)
  
• hw30 - Making the ADBOp call from CFM-68K - (11-May-98)
  
• hw29 - Gestalt Values for Recent Macintosh Models - (Updated 13-July-98)
  
• hw28 - DR Emulator Caches - (8-Apr-96)
  
• hw27 - DDC Information Source - (22-Nov-95)
  
• hw26 - PCI Type 1 Cycles - (15-July-95)
  
• hw25 - PCI Interrupts - (15-July-95)
  
• hw24 - Creating a Monitors Control Panel Extension - (15-July-95)
  
• hw23 - Testing PCI drivers without any device - (15-July-95)
  
• hw22 - Asserting fast-back-to-back transfers in the PCI Power Mac - (15-July-95)
  
• hw21 - Verifying the PCI Interface - (15-July-95)
  
• hw20 - PCI Card’s Assigned-Address Properties - (15-July-95)
  
• hw19 - Explicitly Forcing PCI Burst Transfers - (15-July-95)
  
• hw18 - Getting the Processor Type and Speed on a PCI Mac - (15-July-95)
  
• hw17 - PCI Drivers: I/O Queue & KillIO - (15-July-95)
  
• hw16 - PCI Device and Driver Matching - (15-July-95)
  
• hw15 - GetDriverDiskFragment and 'ndrv' Drivers - (15-July-95)
  
• hw14 - DMA Not Working with PCI Bus - (15-July-95)
  
• hw13 - Developing a SCSI SIM for a PCI SCSI Controller - (15-July-95)
  
• hw12 - PCI Support for the ISA Style Bracket - (15-July-95)
  
• hw11 - PCI Bus and IEEE Standards - (15-July-95)
  
• hw10 - Interrupt Management - (15-July-95)
  
• hw09 - Ethernet Driver Message Blocks - (15-July-95)
  
• hw08 - Implementing read-modify-write on PCI - (15-July-95)
  
• hw07 - Disconnect/Retry - (15-July-95)
  
• hw06 - PCI Bus Performance with Memory Write and Memory Write Invalidate Commands - (15-July-95)
  
• hw05 - PCI Bus Performance with Memory Read and Memory Read Multiple Commands - (15-July-95)
  
• hw04 - PowerBook and Sleep Mode - (1-May-95)
  
• hw03 - NuBus Timing Problem - (1-May-95)
  
• hw02 - NuBus Declaration ROM - (1-May-95)
  
• hw01 - Determining If a PCI Bus Exists - (Updated 27-Nov-96)
  

Related File Contents

• Hardware Technical Notes
• Hardware 500 Series Technical Notes (old Q&A compilations)
• Hardware Developer Notes