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OpenSolaris Project: Tadpole Platform Support

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The goal of this project is to improve the support for Tadpole mobile SPARC platforms in OpenSolaris, primarily by introducing software from Tadpole, but also by enhancing that software ourselves.

In some cases Tadpole proprietary solutions may be eschewed for more platform neutral approaches. We will have to coordinate closely with the laptop community to do this.

The following Tadpole platforms are targeted:

1. SPARCLE (douglas)
2. SPARCbook 5000/6000 (phoenix)
3. UltraBook IIi (huxley)
4. UltraBook IIe (dinsdale)
5. Voyager IIi
6. Viper
7. Bullfrog (numerous variants)

As a consequence of our work, we may actually improve things for other platforms as well… for example integrating an enhanced vuidsynps2 module is one of this projects goals, and is likely to benefit OpenSolaris users on many x86-based laptops.

Announcements

12 Apr 2007	First SPARCLE platform committed
09 Apr 2007	New Tadpole project open!
09 Apr 2007	PSARC 2007/152 approved
09 Apr 2007	SPARCLE/douglas code review posted

Blogs

Garrett D'Amore - locking hints for device drivers

Nov 10, 8:14 AM

It seems that I often run into the same problems over and over again, and I see many device drivers which often suffer from the same problem. Here are some strategies I use in my own coding -- maybe ...

Garrett D'Amore - BMC on concurrency

Nov 4, 9:53 AM

Bryan Cantrill has just posted one of the more excellent blog posts I've seen this year -- he manages to put to words some of my heretofore unvoiced doubts about transactional memory. I'm a big fan ...

Garrett D'Amore - fdc suspend/resume support

Nov 1, 9:08 PM

In another update, I've updated fdc (the floppy disk controller) so that it supports suspend/resume even if a floppy drive is present. There is one caveat though -- namely that the drive must be ...

Garrett D'Amore - iprb updated with suspend/resume & quiesce

Nov 1, 7:38 AM

I've updated iprb ( Intel Pro/100 Ethernet driver) to support suspend/resume and quiesce (fast reboot). I've also made some other changes, such as updating to the latest microcode from Intel, fixing ...

Garrett D'Amore - Boomer: Next Generation Audio for Solaris

Oct 28, 4:24 PM

I've posted draft inception materials for our PSARC case, 2008/318, for Boomer. Boomer is the code name for the effort to integrate a modern OSS-compatible API, and additional drivers, into Solaris. ...