gyp@seismo.CSS.GOV@csadfa.OZ.AU (Patrick Tang) (11/29/86)
This article was sent to the newsgroup mod.computers.sun more than two weeks ago, but for some unknown reason, it is still hidden somewhere. Because of the urgency of the matter below, I hope nobody minds me posting this article to this newsgroup. ===================================================================== The Computer Science Department and the Electrical Electronics Engineering Department in this campus have just recently purchased MIP-1024 (Real-Time 1024 x 1024 Image processor) to be installed on SUN 2/120 and SUN 2/160 respectively. The SUN 2/120 is a Multi-bus system while the SUN 2/160 is a VME-bus system. The Electrical Electronics Engineering Departments has begun their first stage of installation, ie with one MIP-board configuration. (The final configuration is 3 MIP-1024 composed of 1 master and 2 slave to produce colour images). However, a problem has been encountered during the process, >driver for the MIP is able to do all sorts of good things with the >I/O ports, but appears to fall over when trying to address the bulk >memory of the MIP (ie the frame buffer). I wonder anyone who has such system could give us any help. In addition, does anyone understand the address-mapping which occurs at the hardware level, in order to be able to use the SUN Monitor to properly check hardware registers and bulk memory locations. Any other problems that you had encountered and method of solving them during the process of installation of the MIP-1024 or MIP-512 for the VME or Multi-bus SUN would be most appreciated as well. We would appreciate it very much if you could define clearly which MIP configuration and SUN system that you are talking about. Thanks in advance. ---- Tang Guan Yaw/Patrick International:+61 62 68 8819 Local: (062) 68 8819 Dept. Computer Science Telex: ADFADM AA62030 University College ACSNET: gyp@csadfa.oz Aust. Defence Force Academy UUCP: ...!seismo!munnari!csadfa.oz!gyp Canberra. ACT. 2600. ARPA: gyp%csadfa.oz@SEISMO.CSS.GOV AUSTRALIA CSNET: gyp@csadfa.oz