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SFx86-VME
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SFx86-VME
A VME nexus device driver for Solaris®-x86 Intel platform
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Highlights:
Supports Solaris 2. x as a nexus driver;
Supports all VME address modes A16, A24, A32 and data widths D8, D16, D32 and
D64;
Supports linked-list DMA using onboard hardware DMAengine in the Universe chip;
Distributed in pkg_add for simplifying sofware installation process;
Enables all VME switch options such as time-out, interrupt, bus level, burst-size per
software configuration file;
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Description:
The Solflower SFx86-VME is a nexus device driver that allows standard Sun4 VME drives to run on
Solaris-x86 Intel platform. The standard Sun4 VME device driver supports a wide range of device
types, including DSP, graphic interfaces and communication devices. The Solflower x86-VME runs
on any Intel X86 processor based system with a PCI-VME interface from Tundra Semiconductor.
The time and effort to develop a Solaris compatible VME drivers depends upon the complexities of
the devices themselves. It can take some significant work to create a set of fully debugged device
drivers for the platform. SFx86-VME helps to shorten the development cycle of the port to Solaris
by using of off-the-shelf Sun4 VME drivers and provide plug-and-play in most of the cases. In
addition SFx86-VME offers source-code kit that supply mmap() read() write() ioclt() and DMA
routines between two buses.
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