[geeks] Sun Ultra 1

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Aug 9 09:58:23 CDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:11:51AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> > I hope that someday that gets fixed.
> Most likely not. These cards where not made by Sun and the driver source
> is (C) by that other company. So Sun can not release this code for free
> and it seems that this other company is out of business / got bought by
> an other company...

Hey, I can still hope.  If someone would write a free SMT
implementation, it might not be too far fetched for someone to figure
out the Sun cards.
 
> > I generally find Solaris about as easy, as long as I'm using GCC
> > rather than Sun CC.
> Because the Sun compiler is even worse then GCC or because the code you
> have to use is not written portable?

The latter.

I spent a week getting one package to build using Sun's CC.  It is a
simulation system.  It takes in verilog code and spits out an executable
for you to run to actually run the simulation.  At this point, it spits
out executables, but those executables won't run due to dynamic library
troubles.   Sigh.



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