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Heads Up: OPL Platform support

Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:32:58 -0700
From: Johnny Hui <Johnny dot Hui at Sun dot COM>
To: on-all at eng dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads Up: OPL Platform support

Heads up: OPL Platform support in Nevada

With the putback of

    6379529 Solaris for OPL Project

Solaris Nevada now supports the new OPL platform.


The Olympus Product Line (OPL) is Sun's next generation of
high-end servers, replacing Serengeti, Starcat and Amazon.
It supports the Fujitsu SPARC64-VI processor (code named
Olympus-C), which is dual-core, dual-strand per core, meaning
4 virtual processors per CPU chip.  OPL is sun4u based.

Official name for OPL server is "Sun SPARC Enterprise" server.

OPL ARC Cases and FMA Portfolios
--------------------------------
PSARC/2004/750 Solaris for OPL

PSARC/2006/094 Key management and DR for OPL - Approved 2006/02/22
PSARC/2006/095 OPL DSCP Support in Solaris - Approved 2006/02/22
PSARC/2006/096 OPL Event Transport Module - Approved 2006/02/22
PSARC/2006/157 Relaxed Ordering for PCI-X/PCI-E - Approved 2006/03/08

FWARC/2004/692 Virtual Core Extension - Approved 2004/10/08
FWARC/2005/076 Jupiter Bus and Dev Binding - Approved 2005/04/22
FWARC/2006/012 Jupiter Bus and Dev Binding Updates - Approved 2006/01/17
FWARC/2005/261 OPL Hardware Descriptor - Approved 2006/01/23
FWARC/2005/268 OPL OBP Device Tree Binding - Approved - 2006/02/01
FWARC/2005/320 OPL SCF Interface - Approved - 2006/02/27
PSARC/2006/235 FMA for OPL CPU, Memory and PCI-E Root Complex

Portfolio:
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2006/003.cpumem-opl
2005/018.oberon-asic



Machine Access
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Projects modifying their code impacting sun4u platforms also need to
test their code on an OPL platform.  To get access to an OPL system,
please send email including the following subject as:

       To     : opl_hw_access at sun dot com
       Subject: Need OPL System Access


FAQ
---

FAQ for OPL can be found at:
   http://on-faq.eng/~wh31274/fom.cgi?file=1


Bug Filing
----------

Please use the following bug categories to file bugs against
OPL platform.

    Product:  opl
    Category: opl-os  - OPL Solaris related bugs
              opl-sp  - OPL Service Processor related bugs


If there are any question on OPL, please contact
opl_sw_solaris at sun dot com


Sincerely,
OPL Solaris Software Team.