Recent update: 2008-5-9

Linux x86 PLI libraries

892 byte By t1eval at 2008-2-26
Hi,I just downloaded the latest release with the x86 linux binaries. Trying to run regression with VCS and got some linking errors with the PLI libraries. I went into the lib directory and couldn't find these symbols in the .a files. However these symbols seem to exist in the SunOS libs. Has ...

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18 byte By wrwfs@xxxxx.xxx at 2008-2-17
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[OpenSPARC announce] OpenSPARC T1 Micro Architecture Specification Released

649 byte By DwayneLee at 2008-2-13
We have just released a new document, the OpenSPARC T1 Micro Architecture Specification.The OpenSPARC T1 Micro architecture Specification includes detailed functionaldescriptions of the OpenSPARC T1 Processor components. It describes the architectureof each component of the OpenSPARC T1 ...

Opensparc&Linux?DIY A Computer System?

837 byte By openidea at 2008-2-3
Hehe, I have a dream .One day ,downloads the sof file of opensparc system into an FPGA board, downloads the zImage of Linux into the memory of the FPGA board,then it tells:Hello ,Opensparc&Linux.......In the past 1year, I tried to understand the kernel of Linux.And now, i am interested in ...

How to generate gdb compatible .o for CMT using Sun Studio C compiler?

1375 byte By marcoz at 2008-1-31
Hello,we've been working on a joint project for telco bearer plane applications on CMT.We started the project using gcc for Sparc and we switched to Sun Studio compiler when we hit some bugs in gcc (optimized mode was not completely stable). The switch took a few weeks due to syntax ...

bug report

1813 byte By Monchichi at 2008-1-26
i tried to install vlc0.8.5 on my Ultr80when i am running the script to build the binary i get the folowing error:gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 (gccfss)Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NOwarranty; not even for ...

simulation error

390 byte By jon_voight at 2008-1-22
Hi, guysTried to run some simulation and errors kept showing up. For example, in /design/sys/iop/ctu/rtl/ctu_clsp_pllcnt.v, line 298always @(/*AUTOSENSE*/ `RSTSM_FREQ_CHG or `RSTSM_PLL_LCKncverilog keeps complaining about this. I am new to verilog, but the above statement does looks suspecious. ...

RAM syntheisis

1450 byte By nagvarre at 2008-1-19
I almost completed synthesizing all the blocks exept SRAMS.Memory compiler generatd RAM has following portsoutput [127:0]QA;inputCLKA;inputCENA;input [3:0] AA;inputCLKB;inputCENB;input [3:0] AB;input [127:0]DB;input [2:0] EMAAwhereas OpensparcT1 rtl has the followig portsinput [127:0] din; // ...

Legion simulator

301 byte By Xaverdi at 2008-1-10
Hi,I would like to run simulations using Legion. However, I have not found any information of how can I launch simulations and how can I get performance results.How could I launch simulations with Legion? Where can I find manuals related to Legion ...

synthesis issues

354 byte By nagvarre at 2008-1-9
1.I've generated SRAMS from artisan compiler .but they are generated without scan inputs whereas the RAMS present in Opensparc have scan i/p s.So when I'm adding RAM lib files , synthesis tool is showing error that scan i/ps are not found.can I synthesize srams with scan i/p and o/p.do i have ...

iommu information (and other hypervisor api doc issues)

620 byte By therealjmg at 2008-1-7
I have sent mail to hypervisor@sun.com, but have yet to receive a response.I am working on porting FreeBSD to the sun4v, but the documentation for the IOMMU lacking. There is no description of what an iotte is, what it looks like, what it's bits mean, how many bits are in an iotte. If it's an ...

Hang in the procedure of

247 byte By Dding at 2008-1-6
Windows XP 20001G RAM20G HardiskAMD processorwhen installing creator 2, it's hung when deploying web service; meanwhile, another dos console with title "Pointbase" is being opened.Anyone can help? thanks!

Memory to synthesize

349 byte By brantley123 at 2008-1-5
I have been experimenting with the opensparc code a little bit to try and synthesize with xst. I do not have access to the high dollar tools. The problem I ran into is even with one core enabled the build rapidly chews threw about 2.2G of memory and fails for lack of memory.How much memory is ...

Intro to UltraSPARC Architecture 2005

5027 byte By dweaver at 2007-12-25
(this posting is cross-posted in my blog, http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dweaver)Not only is the OpenSPARC T1 processor the first open-sourced 64-bit processor implementation, but it (and its twin, UltraSPARC T1/Niagara) are the first processors that adheres to Sun's new processor ...

Ideas

773 byte By dwaynelee@sun at 2007-12-21
Welcome to the OpenSPARC general forums.We are just starting the community around OpenSPARC and would like to get your input on what you would like to see in support of this community. Our engineering team is working hard to get the bits available.While we're waiting, there are several topics ...

Unable to install gcc (SUNW0gccfss)

363 byte By mfaizm at 2007-12-20
Hi!! Need help in installing gcc on SUN Solaris 9 (64 bit). After download gcc from SUN site, I followed the installation instructions but when I try to add tha package, pkgadd -d SUNW0gccfss, its giving me a "ERROR: no packages were found in </usr/local/apache/softw/SUNW0gccfss>". Please ...

Specific help with SAM

368 byte By AdityaYsv at 2007-12-17
Hi all,Was anyone able to ftp out of the sam's guest console. I think we would need a virtual network interface. There is a loopback interface defined and nothing else (eth0 was what I hoped would be there).This is useful to bring in files than having to stop SAM for the same.Correct me if I ...

test - 6/21/2006 9:48am

30 byte By DwayneLee at 2007-12-10
test - 6/21/2006 9:48am

Another Cooltst interpretation

3369 byte By andymac at 2007-12-7
I need some help since I think the FP usage I am seeing is artificial.I am running cooltst on a v880 server running Solaris 8 with 4 900mh IIIi processors. I am seeing 1.2 - 1.8 FP usage over the course of the day (we ran cooltst hourly). I saw another discussion where it mentioned some of the ...

GCC for SPARC and use of GNU ld

856 byte By Jace444 at 2007-12-4
From the documentation on Porting, it says that GCC for SPARC was compiled to use the Solaris linker. Is there a way to reset GCC so it will use the GNU ld?Am running:- Solaris 10 6/06 with up to date patches on a SF T2000- have GNU ld installed in /opt/binutils/- GCC For SPARC Systems ...

OpenSparc PLI Code

542 byte By matt.horsnell at 2007-12-2
Hi,I've recently downloaded the OpenSparc source and have been working my way through the "Design and Verification User's Guide". I'm wondering if anyone can comment on whether the code in the PLI tools is 64-bit specific? Using the mkplilib command on a 32-bit x86 system, and using gcc ...

Feature request: transplanting architectural state into OpenSPARC

2054 byte By jsmolensa at 2007-11-26
Hi All, This is a follow-up from our conversation at FCRC/ISCA last week. I have a feature request for the OpenSPARC RTL, and potentially the FPGA model, which would help researchers experiment with real workloads on OpenSPARC:I would like to see a process for transplanting checkpointed ...

[help]error in simulation and synthesis

432 byte By black@bull at 2007-11-23
i want to do rtl simulation and synthesis.Now i have two questions:1. does it need c compiler (cc) in sunstudio to compiler the c code ? can gcc do this job?Because when use"sims -group=core1_mini", the error shows that there are no cc or CC package.2. we use design_compiler ver.2002.05 to ...

apache2 SSL will not start. :(

4366 byte By AnthonyCa at 2007-11-22
I am getting this error in my log files using 'apachectl start':[Wed May 23 15:18:56 2007] [error] Init: Private key not found[Wed May 23 15:18:56 2007] [error] SSL Library Error: 218710120 error:0D094068:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_ASN1_SET:bad tag[Wed May 23 15:18:56 2007] [error] SSL ...

Chipset docs

171 byte By marco_peereboom at 2007-11-22
Opening up the arch documents is great but to make this really useful we (the open source community) also need chipset docs. What is the release strategy for those?

CSQamp start options

645 byte By navesdada at 2007-11-21
Hello everyone,I'm still new to Solaris, and I've installed the CSQamp package onto my system. I'm trying to figure out if the apache file in init.d is for the CSQamp or the default Solaris install? If it is, is there any documentation on setting up a new one, that is for CSQamp?Also, when a ...

Interpreting Cooltst output for Oracle DB Cluster

5184 byte By TheOnly1a at 2007-11-18
We presently have Oracle running on a SUN 6800 Cluster. We need to make the determination if a T2000 sun cluster or a SUN V490 cluster would be a better way to go. Sun has instructed us to use the cooltst.ksh script to determine if the cool threads servers whould be a good fit. Based on the ...

coolstack/apache and mod_ntlm... the road less traveled...

678 byte By mikee11a at 2007-11-15
When you google for ntlm and coolstack, you don't get any hits, and that is usually one of the 1st signs of trouble.... http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/is an apache module that helps with some authentication business in heavy windows/AD type of environments. apxs is used to fire off the compile, and ...

silly thing wont install

846 byte By dirtbag2ka at 2007-11-15
[jawelsh@club]$ sudo ./cooltuner.shar Password:cooltuner.shar starting up...Testing available /opt space ... OKExtracting cooltuner scripts from the /scratch/jawelsh/t2000_stuff/./cooltuner.shar file to /opt/cooltuner/tmptail +228 /scratch/jawelsh/t2000_stuff/./cooltuner.shar | /bin/uudecode -p ...

New documentation for Cache-crossbar interface posted

652 byte By formalGuya at 2007-11-15
Hello Everyone,There have been several questions recently about the interface between the SPARC core and the cache-crossbar (CCX). As a result, we have posted a supplement to the OpenSPARCT1 Microarchitecture Document which goes into more detail about the protocol on this interface. The ...

Field Force Automation

258 byte By DaveJohnsona at 2007-11-15
I need wireless data collection tool, it needs to have a form that can support drop down menus, check boxes, support GPS, maybe bar coding and photo capture. Does anyone know of a product or service that can support wireless data collection like this?

Building MesaLib with gccfss

1291 byte By segva at 2007-11-15
Hi, I'm trying to build a load of packages with gccfss and currently it fails on MesaLib with the following error messages:gcc -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libOSMesa.so.6 -o .libs/libOSMesa.so.6.0.4 drivers/osmesa/.libs/osmesa.o -R/opt/pkg.obj/graphics/MesaLib/work.ultra10/Mesa-6.4.2/src/mesa/.libs ...

Download problems

150 byte By gerdemba at 2007-11-15
Is anyone else having trouble downloading? Whenever I attempt to download the file OpenSPARCT1.1.4.tar.bz the web page returns a fatal error...

Difference between coolstack x86 and sparc

508 byte By linuxboy123a at 2007-11-15
Does anybody has any ideas why the same php code (specifically with graphs using gd) works on x86 and not on sparc?DetailsUltra 20 - Solaris 10 11/06 CSKamp, CSKmysql and CSKphplibs installed. The Zabbix servers frontend creates graphs fine.V240 - sparc Solaris 10 11/06CSKamp, CSKmysql and ...

Python

111 byte By ajangitya at 2007-11-14
I am surprised Python isn't included. It would be nice if that was optimized as well. (with SSL etc...)

Cool Tools - Any interest in SMF included?

585 byte By john.tracya at 2007-11-14
I'd like to be able to manage the MySQL and Apache instances included with Cool Stack with SMF.If we wrote up a good SMF manifest, would there be any chance of getting it included with future versions of Cool Stack? I'd hate to think of how many of us have reinvented the wheel writing our ...

PHP pages staying cached until Apache restarts

2313 byte By robasaurusa at 2007-11-14
We've installed Cool Stack CSKamp on a Sun T2000 with Solaris 2.10. We've finally gotten Apache, PHP, and MySQL to all talk together, mostly. One big problem we're seeing is that changes made to php pages don't display on the Web until we restart Apache. This isn't practical for us. Here ...

Purpose of Branch Never?

678 byte By Quasar84a at 2007-11-14
Like a lot of CS students, I've been learning SPARC assembly lately and have been exposed to the Branch Never instruction, bn. I have searched through online sources, talked to instructors, grad students, and even read books - and while all will clearly and happily tell me exactly what bn ...

Difference between Address Space Identifiers& Alternate Space Identifier?

449 byte By openideaa at 2007-11-14
Hello ,All,UA2005-current-draft-HP-EXT provides the detail of Address Space Identifiers. In MicroArch, there is a saying Alternate Space Identifier Accesses. It is not so difficult to get through Address Space Identifiers.As regards Alternate Space Identifier ,It confused me.Is Alternate Space ...

blank mysql records

1496 byte By hale1a at 2007-11-14
Hi,I'm afraid I'm new to (S)AMP setup and configuration (but not new to Solaris on Intel,which I've been running since 2.5). I believe I have everything configured, and it allworks fine on my desktop at home which is using blastwave versions of the relevant(AMP) programs, but when I export ...

OpenSPARC T1 v1.4 now available for download

1818 byte By durgama at 2007-11-14
Hello everyone,OpenSPARC T1 v1.4 is not available for download. Here is a short description of available new features. Please do download and try it out.New features in OpenSPARC v1.4==============================OpenSPARC T1 v1.4 adds significant new functionality as well as newplatform ...

CSKruby for x86 states for sparc during installation

347 byte By aorchida at 2007-11-14
Just tried to install the CSKruby on an Ultra20 running s11 b55b. I aborted the install because the package claims to be for the sparc platform not x86, even though x86 is in the package name. I suspect this is just a packaging error and not a mis-compile of sorts. Is it safe to install this ...

Sunfire 280R Sparc

167 byte By lamoula at 2007-11-14
Need help to update the patch for Daylight Saving Time in Eastern Canada.Looking for DST BIOS patch update and SUN OS 9 DST patch update.Thank you

Question aout T1 regression test

1966 byte By sunboy_cja at 2007-11-14
Hi every body:We met some problems during the T1 regerssion testThe question has been listed in the following:1 In the OpenSPARCT1 verification code(verif\monitor.v), I found that it contains some code like "`ifdef GATE_SIM" in some places . But after this sentence, there is no any operation ...

Could the Hypervisor virtualize the muliple cores into one core

695 byte By muse101a at 2007-11-14
Just wondering if it would be a practical possibility to have the hypervisor provide an optional abstraction layer that would virtualize the 8 cores in the T1 to appear as one core with 8 pipes to implement instruction-level parallelism (ILP) for single threaded programs. This could be done by ...

URGENT!!!

127 byte By efjaya at 2007-11-14
Hi fellas,Please i'm in my final year in college and i need a project topic to work on. Any bright ideas please?

CoolStack AMP compile options

213 byte By august at 2007-11-14
Can anyone let me know which PHP compile options were used when creating the CoolStack AMP? Specifically, I am looking for GD support which does not seem to be compiled in. http://www.boutell.com/gd/

Hardware Checks entire Check up required

518 byte By FaisalAshraf at 2007-11-14
Hi All,I am using Sun Ultra Enterprise 170 Sparcserver. The machine went down yesterday & i was unable to bring it online after lot of attempts.But today machine is accessible itself from network (too strange). I want to see about the reason of such failure & about the hardware faults ...

OpenSparcT1 FPGA project

181 byte By EricW at 2007-11-14
Hi:Has anybody succeeded in Placing and Routing work for T1? If so, could you kindly let us know what's the work flow and on what platform?Thanks!W.Wang

lib_I_dbg_gen.so.1 not found

1142 byte By Samsam at 2007-11-14
Hi,I am struggling with the compilation under a SPARC solaris platform.Successfull Installation of packages:- SUNW0scgfss- gccWhile executing "make", I get the following error message:gcc -Wmissing-prototypes -Wformat -Dstrcasecmp=fix_strcasecmp-Dstrncasecmp=fix_strncasecmp -g -O -I. -DSUNOS5 ...