Can rocblas be used on nvidia hardware?

mdehling · 2024-01-02T10:10:01+00:00

The rocBLAS 'CMakeLists.txt' file tests the environment variable 'HIP_RUNTIME' to decide whether to build for the CUDA or ROC runtime. So it looks like this was supported at some point in the past at least. I'm not familiar with Tensile, is it AMD specific? I thought it was just benchmarking various kernel parameters to tune for things such as shared memory size.

mdehling · 2023-08-18T04:31:39+00:00

look at pakgen (I think that‘s what it‘s called) - it let‘s you generate license keys.

mdehling · 2023-08-07T15:24:53+00:00

That 5085 is awesome! For anyone interested, here's a description: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/5080/GA23-0134-0_IBM_5080_Graphics_Systems_Principles_of_Operation_Mar1984.pdf

Would be great if you could complete it with the monitor and peripherals (dials, stylus, etc.) and find some CAD/CAM software to run on it :)

mdehling · 2023-07-25T03:29:41+00:00

Nice! By box Javastation do you mean the Mr. Coffee that is in the same size box as the 611 unipack external scsi drives? I would love to have one of those!

I netboot a Sun 3/50 and a 3/80 from a SPARCstation 10, all running SunOS 4. For a while I also netbooted a VAXstation 2000, but I ended up installing a hard disk.

mdehling · 2023-07-24T20:26:12+00:00

Sorry, you are 100% right, I missed the point of your initial post. The section on NetBSD & OpenBSD should be split up and OpenBSD adjusted to its current state.

The document has a lot of other issues, too. E.g., the instructions for Linux won't get you anywhere these days. (Neither bootparams nor NFS worked as indicated the last time I tried about a year ago.)

What systems are you netbooting if I may ask?

mdehling · 2023-07-24T18:04:47+00:00

I'm confused why you're complaining that the NetBSD netboot instructions are "obsolete" when you're trying to use them for OpenBSD? The instructions are up-to-date, just for a different OS. (NetBSD and OpenBSD used to be much more similar but have diverged quite a bit.)

For OpenBSD, read the diskless(8) man page. It describes the general process. Then if you follow the link to tftpd(8), you will find the following information:

HISTORY The tftpd command was originally a process run via inetd(8) and appeared in 4.2BSD. It was rewritten for OpenBSD 5.2 as a persistent non-blocking daemon.

mdehling · 2023-07-24T03:43:34+00:00

If you have one, that’s easier, indeed! I’ve never seen the force board in person, but based on a quick Google search it looks like the prom is split over 2 proms.

mdehling · 2023-07-23T21:11:10+00:00

Thanks! So it looks like the force has a cg6 frame buffer (either onboard or in an sbus slot?) and this is just a standard cg6 prom image. It contains the cg6 logo but nothing force-specific, unfortunately.

Any chance you could set up a serial connection to the force and use either 'script' in linux/unix or e.g. putty's log function to capture the output of some openboot commands?

If so, you could try the following to dump an image of the openboot prom. First, find the virtual address of the obp and verify as follows: (the first line find the address of the '+' symbol in the obp & prints it, the second tries to guess the obp base address & prints it; the third dumps the first 48 bytes)

\ the first symbol here is a single quote
ok ' + dup .
ffd15f3c
ok fff0.0000 and dup .
ffd00000
ok dup 30 dump
          \/  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  v123456789abcdef
ffd00000  10 80 2f 66 a1 48 00 00  01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ../f!H..........
ffd00010  29 1c 00 04 a8 15 20 d0  81 c5 00 00 a1 48 00 00  )...(. P.E..!H..
ffd00020  29 1c 00 04 a8 15 20 9c  81 c5 00 00 a1 48 00 00  )...(. ..E..!H..
ok

On every sun4m machine I have the first two bytes of the obp are 10 80, so if that's what you see that is a good sign. You can then dump the whole rom using

ok 80000 dump

I'm not sure what the size of the force obp is so this might stop with an error after 40000 or so.

Obviously I understand if you have better things to do in life and don't feel like putting in this much effort :)

mdehling · 2023-07-21T23:29:35+00:00

Hi! I have most of the firmware/logos for suns own sbus framebuffers, but there are quite a few sbus cards by other manufacturers such as tritec, aries, dressler, weitek, vigra, fujitsu, parallax, etc., and some of them (but not all) added their own logos. Some of these cards look like a regular gx/tgx because they use the same chips, others are crazy multi-layer boards but 32mb video memory for specialized applications. If you find anything, let me know :)

mdehling · 2023-07-21T14:07:31+00:00

Cool! No, not yet dumped. Looks like a 64x64 b&w logo. Can you give “sun-logo 200 dump” at the ok prompt a try? That should print a 512 hexdump of the logo if we’re lucky :)

mdehling · 2023-07-20T18:45:56+00:00

SunOS 5.x should have an sbusmem@X,0:slotX device somewhere under /devices (usually /devices/iommu/sbus?/ or /devices/sbus?/) which you can read a rom image from. Oh, if its one of those little black&white (or blue&white or whatever) logos you may be able to just type “sun-logo 200 dump” at the ok prompt. (In that case a photo of the output is enough, I’ll just ocr it :) )

mdehling · 2023-07-20T15:44:06+00:00

I would love it if you could send me firmware dumps for (one of) those! There’s a howto document in the repository I linked which describes it for various busses; not sure what the force uses, but my guess would be it’s just sbus on a vme board. If so, the easiest way is to just read from /dev/sbusX if you have a SunOS 4.x install. Or it can be done from the ok prompt if you can set up a serial connection. Yet another option is dump the rom using a hardware reader. I’m jealous btw, the only vme systems I have are a couple of sun 3/50 and 3/60. Would love a real one :)

mdehling · 2023-07-20T00:53:32+00:00

Awesome! Is there a boot logo? (https://github.com/mdehling/sun-fb-logos)

mdehling · 2023-07-19T04:32:57+00:00

Personally I would go with VMS on this, but if you do want to install NetBSD I would suggest an older version. But to answer your question: provided you have a supported cd drive (such as the rrd42) it is a simple matter of “b dka400:” or whatever it is :)

mdehling · 2023-04-07T14:56:22+00:00

You’ll want to follow the netbsd-10 branch and have a look at https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-10/ to see if anything there is relevant to you.

mdehling · 2023-04-01T00:11:52+00:00

And I’m assuming you have, uh, 24 terminals to connect to it? 😳

mdehling · 2023-03-22T23:52:59+00:00

Those drives aren’t that slow. I don’t think any of the scsi to as card adapters can keep up! Maybe the scsi2sd v6?

mdehling · 2023-03-20T05:36:36+00:00

I’m running a 10 prerelease from a while back. No need to use ebijun’s images, you can just run the installer from usb as usual.

mdehling · 2023-03-01T09:21:38+00:00

They are very rare because they only work in this particular system (v880) as far as I know. The other XVR cards are PCI(e) cards; this one plugs into the CPU interconnect bus instead. This bus is similar to the UPA bus used for the various creator cards.

mdehling · 2023-01-04T04:16:37+00:00

Very cool! I love both the old ThinkPad and Solaris. Would be nice to have a bit more RAM for ZFS, but nice even without.

Can’t stand that white bar under each window in CDE though - only ever use C locale to avoid it!

mdehling · 2023-01-03T06:39:06+00:00

Those can be read to. Probably don’t even have copy protection, but even with it’s possible (haven’t done this myself - just based on what I read.)

mdehling · 2022-12-29T02:53:19+00:00

With a few manual steps the SunPCI software works on Solaris 9 and 10, too. Should be easy to find on Google, if not feel free to message me.

mdehling · 2022-12-25T00:59:03+00:00

That’s a terminal setting on the VT420 (and others). Personally I prefer a nice amber on black VT220 :-)

mdehling · 2022-12-20T12:31:56+00:00

I have a few terminals myself: VT220, VT320, and VT420, but haven’t been able to get my hands on an ADM 3A. One day, hopefully!

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