Hi:I believe SHADE does not work under Solaris 10. Just wondering if there are similar profiling tools for v10? Thanks,-ram

Hi, I built a binary with SGCC (-O3 -xpec).Trying ats on a binary, I get this:Recompiling with: /var/gcc/bin -fast -fsimple=0 -fns=noCompilation command = /var/gcc/bin/gcc -fast -fsimple=0 -fns=no-L /lib -lsocket -lc -lnsl -lmp -lmd5 -lscf -ldoor -luutil -lm ...

HiAre the Cool Tools going to be ported to x86 ever, or is this only for (Open) SPARC?Paul

Can someone give me an idea of what optimizations options would be a good starting point for the T1 on Solaris 10?I'm using:-O3 -mcpu=v9 -mtune=v9 -fomit-frame-pointer -fastAm I missing anything or do I have anything wrong?

Does anyone know the relationship between the "mcpu" and "xtarget" params in gccfss, specifically what happens when they are in conflict?The "mcpu" param is the normal way in traditional GCC to set the instruction/register set and instruction scheduling options for SPARC code generation - for ...

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 ...

This is really weird. Check this out:$ gcc cversion.c -I . -I .. -I ../include -xpec -c -fast51:.size$XB_sgccYSSEEVaU.SSLeay_version.buf, 29552: $XB_sgccYSSEEVaU.SSLeay_version.buf:53:.skip 295cg error (as) : "/var/tmp//ccyxnrK5.s", line 52 : redefinition of symbol ...

Hi,nice work. Are there plans to merge the Sun GCC improvements back to any GNU GCC branch (4.0, 4.1, 4.2). How long do you think this will take, and which branch do you target?Did you notice, that gcc trunk got some niagara add-ons at March, 2nd?

We have several Sun Studio versions installed under /opt/StudioNN/SUNWSpro, where NN reflects the Studio version.According to the installation webpage http://cooltools.sunsource.net/studioaddon/install.html one can relocate the install package with the -R option to pkgadd, but this will still ...

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 ...

Sun engineers have put together 60+ (so far) blogs covering h/w, Solaris, performance and scaling, tuning tips, best practices, RAS about UltraSPARC T1, the SunFire T1000/T2000 systems and OpenSPARC.You can start with Richard McDougall's index blog ...

I know Sun is wroking hard to bring Red Hat support ATM. How is that working? How can these new chips be used cheaply for the desktop.

How is Sun's OpenSpark program different then say Via's? How will this better support cutting edge graphics on Linux? What would be the pros and cons?Thanks

There,As an end-user I'm hopping to see very soon computers based on an serious alternative of x86 for home appliance.I'd like to enjoy my Digital SLR, watch my movies, hear my MP3 or play some FPS games on such a computer, of course using Linux as I'm already doing all of that under ...

Hello,There is a bit of confusion I am having over the extent of Sun's OpenSPARC project. I've heard that there are plans to port the OpenSolaris OS to the CPU. It is my understanding that in order to simulate a system containing a CPU, there have to be a number of support components. For ...

Hi,Where is the download link for the opensparc.With regardspankajji

What license would you want to see used for OpenSPARC?Here are a few blogs from Syndicate Conference, to start a discussion. <a href=" http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/1000023">Sun leaning to GPL for open source SPARC</a>by Doc Searls <a ...

(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 ...

Where ican i get the background information about the UltraSPARC T1 Processor?

The idea of chipipedia is very good one.So i would like to start adding the terminologies .So how do we do it? like having a seperate forum ?

Will Sun insist its process vendors for opting the SOI technology -which is increasingly being tried out by AMD and IBM?Balaji Sankarshanan

SUPERSCALAR: An implementation that allows several instructions to be issued,executed and committed in one clock cycle.

When is Sun likely to release the hardware specific architecture information ?

VIRTUAL PROCESSOR:The term virtual processor or virtual processor core is used to identify each strand in a processor.Each virtual processor corresponds to a specific physical core where there may be multiple physical cores ,each with multiple strands.Each virtual processor has its own ...

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?

I am having a problem to ftp and telnet to Solaris 10 server; from remote machine.I was able to ftp to this server before, now I can only ping but can't ftp or telnet to this machine. I ran inetadm -e ftp command and tried svcadm enable /network/ftp but that did not resolve the ...

Hi, I come from hardware design so I will put a question that is silly for software developers... I just want to clarify how threads relate to processes.Just to be clear, since the T1 has four cores capable of running 8 threads each, for a total of 32 threads, if I am on a system that runs ...

Hi:I believe SHADE does not work under Solaris 10. Just wondering if there are similar profiling tools for v10? Thanks,-ram

Is there a SHADE version that runs from LINUX OS environment?

hi,i am using Enterprise 4500.i cant boot disk0 or 1,2... and when i tried to installa solaris 10 i couldnt . it said " there is no disk to install solaris on"i checked the devalias and the it did show 6 disks disk0,disk1....physicaly i have 2 hard disk but i dont know what is the problemanyone ...

While most people in this group are waiting for Verilog/RTL code, our research group has been looking for any source level simulator for the UltraSPARC T1 (or Open equivalent.)We are hoping to find a simulator with source code that we can augment to research enhancements to the T1 architecture. ...

I thought of developing applications that can be deployed in solaris server for my clients.Where can i get solaris server for commercial purposes.Whether this free download can be used for commercial purpose?

Hello,today I saw the mail from the mailing-list and immediately download the package. I find it great to have a look in the implementation of a big processor-family. But unfortunately the package is only for the Solaris platform. Because I'm a student, I do not have my own Sparc-System. Is it ...

This post isn't about chips or software. It's just about the website. Since there doesn't seem to be an obvious "webmaster" contact point on the site, I'm posting here.If you look at the page: http://opensparc.sunsource.net/nonav/index.htmlIt has over one megabyte of inline images!!I pity ...

I've been told that Sun has a Xilinx FPGA implementation of the T1. Are any detailsavailable ? Is the board available for purchase ?What is the approximate gate count or LUT countof the T1 ?Thanks.Jim

Does anyone know if SUN have released or are planning to release BSDL (boundary scan description language) descriptions for the opensource model? Or any other DFT related information models (eg STIL)?

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 ...

hi, I'm a Hardware Engineer and very interesting in the UltrasparcT1, however, I find most of the Doc are written for the software engineers, and there 's seldom topic about the core implementation itself. I think the instruction simulator is for software engineer and the RTL code is for ...

[don't reply,thanks]verification:i find sims script use tools\src\sims\sims,1.262 script and one of the two config file (core1 and chip8) to realize the simulation.Differences between core1.config and chip8.config are:1. the switch "-config_rtl". In core1.config,there is one RTL_SPARC instance ...

Hi,I am interested in mapping the RTL of the OpenSPARC T1 onto an Altera FPGA preferably using Altera's CAD tool (Quartus II). I want to do this for just one SPARC core and figure out what area/delay/power numbers I end up with. 1. Could anyone here give me tips on how to go about this task so ...

Hi, I have designed a new architecture. I have filed for a patent locally. I wish to file international patents using the PTC system. I am a person from a 3rd world country and I did this work individually therefore I am looking for companies which you be interested in licensing the technology ...

I am a newbie in Solaris. Below is the warning message i received when i install GNU m4 with GCC for SPARC(SUN C compiler). Q1) Is Gnu product is not compatible with sun gcc?Q2) Do anyone can help me to sort this out?regex.c: In function 're_match_2_internal':regex.c:4064: warning: passing ...

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 ...

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!

In the synthesis build scripts for the Niagra processor I can see that there are provisions for passing SDC FALSE_PATH and MULTI_CYCLE_PATH statements into the synthesis.However I can't find any files containing any actual paths that are marked as FALSE or MULTI_CYCLE.Can we get these for a ...

Is there any peripheral device interface written in Verilog or VHDL connected to J-BUS? Even a DA or GPIO will be helpful to me.Thanks in advance!

When it come to current architectures certain level parallelism is achieved by pipe lining and executing concurrent instruction pipe lines.Also programmatically parallelism is achieved by running multiple threads to maximise throughput. But generally speaking even the code execution within a ...

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 ...

Seems the gcc that comes with cooltools goes nuts when you use both -c and -o on a single compilation. For example, with the regular gcc:$ gcc -vReading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specsConfigured with: ...

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 ...