Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 10SX, System Configuration Manual

Page 1: ...to docfeedback sun com Platform Notes SPARCstation 10SX and SPARCstation 20 System Configuration Guide Part No 806 2222 10 February 2000 Revision A Sun Microsystems Inc 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto...

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Page 3: ...o Reserve 4 Configuring SXDRAM 5 Memory Bank Layout on the SPARCstation 10SX 5 Memory Bank Layout on the SPARCstation 20 8 System Software Constraints for SXDRAM Configuration 9 Recommended DSIMM VSIM...

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Page 5: ...d The last release to provide XGL support was the Solaris 7 release This document should be used as an addendum to the graphics developer documentation for your Solaris release and to the SPARCstation...

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Page 9: ...osystems Computer Systems official product name for the graphics imaging accelerator is SX All SPARCstation 20 machines have the SX graphics imaging accelerator The video RAM here referred to as the f...

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Page 11: ...AM SX provides acceleration of the graphics and imaging segments of applications that run on a SPARCstation 10SX or SPARCstation 20 workstation Acceleration can be used for a wide range of pixel opera...

Page 12: ...eft for system use Ensure that there is sufficient memory left for system use that system performance is not adversely affected Reserving SXDRAM can improve the performance of an application The defau...

Page 13: ...this information into account when applying the principles explained in the material covering the SPARCstation 10SX Memory Bank Layout on the SPARCstation 10SX There are two memory banks on a SPARCsta...

Page 14: ...ystem configured with 16 MByte DSIMMS in all the slots TABLE 2 1 SPARCstation 10SX System Memory Layout 16 MByte DSIMMs only SIMM Slots DSIMM Size Physical Address Slot 7 16 MByte DSIMM 0x1c000000 Slo...

Page 15: ...and seven 64 MByte DSIMMs TABLE 2 2 SPARCstation 10SX System Memory Layout One 4 MByte VSIMM Seven 16 MByte DSIMMs SIMM Slots DSIMM VSIMM Size Physical Address Slot 7 16 MByte DSIMM 0x1c000000 Slot 3...

Page 16: ...XDRAM with a given set of VSIMMs and DSIMMs use the illustrations in this section as a guide The next section provides some information unique to the SPARCstation 20 The two sections following that di...

Page 17: ...um amount that can be reserved is 1 MByte Recommended DSIMM VSIMM Configuration for the SPARCstation 10SX 1 The VSIMM can only be installed in slots 4 or 5 on the SPARCstation 10SX If there is only on...

Page 18: ...as part of the boot process because it is likely to be the least fragmented at this time and chances of finding large blocks of physically contiguous memory are higher during boot time The amount of S...

Page 19: ...X sbin directory type Your search path will be displayed An example If the line displayed does not include platform SUNW SPARCstation 10 SX sbin enter the following if you are in either the Bourne she...

Page 20: ...is specified and the search fails the operating system searches for contiguous blocks of 16 MBytes If no blocks of this size are found the operating system searches for contiguous blocks of 256 KByte...

Page 21: ...high resolution modes For example you can configure a 4MByte cgfourteen connected to a multi sync monitor to display 8 bit pixels at 1280x1024 resolution with the command When the system is rebooted t...

Page 22: ...entry with this in the file would look like Visuals Supported By Openwindows 3 3 When the window system runs in 8 bit mode it exports the same visuals that are exported by Openwindows 3 3 on other 8...

Page 23: ...color is to use a TrueColor visual Since all 32 bits are available for TrueColor visuals the colors always show up correctly The SX hardware renders 24 bit visuals with the same speed as it renders 8...

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Page 25: ...mmu0 at root obio 0xe0000000 sbus0 at iommu0 obio 0xe0001000 espdma0 at sbus0 SBus slot f 0x400000 esp0 at espdma0 SBus slot f 0x800000 sparc ipl 4 sd0 at esp0 target 0 lun 0 sd0 is iommu f e0000000 s...

Page 26: ...tall attach driver vmemem sbusmem0 at sbus0 SBus slot 0 0x0 sbusmem0 is iommu f e0000000 sbus f e0001000 sbusmem 0 0 sbusmem1 at sbus0 SBus slot 1 0x0 sbusmem1 is iommu f e0000000 sbus f e0001000 sbus...

Page 27: ...0x0 and obio 0x0 sparc ipl 8 cgfourteen0 is obio cgfourteen 1 0 sx_cmem Installed 112MB Reserved 8MB Fragment 0 Avail For System Use 104MB pseudo device sx_cmem0 sx_cmem0 is pseudo sx_cmem 0 Unable t...

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Page 29: ...le Memory Controller 1 3 SPARCstation 10 1 SPARCstation 10SX 1 SPARCstation 20 1 SX imaging and graphics accelerator 1 3 SXDRAM 3 to 12 calculating amount to reserve 4 configuring 5 to 12 system memor...

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