From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM  Fri Sep  7 03:27:39 2007
From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:27:39 +0900
Subject: [intel-platform-dev] [intel-platform-discuss] Thanks a bunch to
	our Intel colleagues
In-Reply-To: <20070816183838.GI20692@sun.com>
References: <20070816183838.GI20692@sun.com>
Message-ID: <46E1279B.9070500@sun.com>

Sherry Moore wrote:
> I would like to thank our Intel colleagues Ashok (Ashok.Raj at intel.com),
> Bob (Robert.A.Kasten at intel.com), Rajesh (rajesh.shah at intel.com) and
> Dave (David.C.Stewart at intel.com) for their significant contributions to
> the recent putbacks from the Intel project team.
> 
>     6495392 use monitor/mwait for halting idle CPUs where supported
>     6558456 Need to support microcode update on Intel platforms
>     6495401 cpuid based cache hierarchy awareness
>     6563585 prtconf reports wrong cache-level on x86 systems having 4MB
> 	    (associative=16, line-size=64) L2 cache
>     6574102 Need to add extended family/model/stepping info to
> 	    cpuid_pass1() for Intel processors
> They helped us in every stage of the projects, including design,
> coding, reviewing, pre- and post- integration testing.  Without their
> dedication none of the progress would have been possible.  Thank
> you, Ashok, Bob, Rajesh and Dave!


Bonnie updated the request-sponsor table, so these putbacks above are 
now listed among all the OpenSolaris code contributions:
http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/

I'll keep track of the Intel project contributions here as well:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/code-contributions/

Jim
-- 
Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris


From Bill.Holler at Sun.COM  Mon Sep 24 20:35:58 2007
From: Bill.Holler at Sun.COM (Bill Holler)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:35:58 -0700
Subject: [intel-platform-dev] pushed 64-bit libc infrastructure to
	/hg/intel-platform/onnv-intel
Message-ID: <46F8821E.7070202@sun.com>

The infrastructure to allow Hardware Capability 64-bit libc objects has
been pushed to the intel-platform OpenSolaris gate:
    ssh://your-login at hg.opensolaris.org/hg/intel-platform/onnv-intel

This was my first use of Mercurial, but all went well.

Webrev is here:
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~bholler/libc64

This only contains the infrastructure.
amd64_hwcap1/gen needs to be populated with any new libc code.
EXTN_CPPFLAGS in amd64_hwcap* makefiles contain defines
for the capabilities we discussed.

OpenSolaris does not currently detect and advertise SSSE3 and SSE4.1
support.  That is coming soon.  mapfile in amd64_hwcap2 and
amd64_hwcap3 could not specify ssse3 nor ssse4_1.  These are
commented out, but will be uncommented when support integrates.

Our plan is to use hwcap1 for SSE3, hwcap2 for SSE3 + SSSE3,
and hwcap3 for SSE3 + SSSE3 + SSE4.1.  (Base is only SSE2.)

Regards,
Bill Holler