From sacadmin Fri Jun 8 17:12:24 2007 Received: from chaz.sfbay.sun.com (chaz [129.146.228.120]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l590COsn001959; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chaz.sfbay.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chaz.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5908q8d000150; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rie@localhost) by chaz.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1/Submit) id l5908qt3000146; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:08:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Rod Evans Message-Id: <200706090008.l5908qt3000146@chaz.sfbay.sun.com> To: PSARC-record@sac.sfbay.sun.com Subject: Bundled BCC for Solaris [PSARC/2007/336 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2007] Status: RO Content-Length: 529 Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.61 05/24/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Bundled BCC for Solaris 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Russ Blaine 1.3 Date of This Document: 08 June, 2007 4. Technical Description See the case directory for more detail 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: OSNet 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack From sacadmin Fri Jun 8 17:23:49 2007 Received: from jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (cretaceous [129.146.17.59]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l590NnkW002018 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.228.120] (chaz.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.228.120]) by jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l590MLvq371110; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4669F241.7050709@sun.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:20:17 -0700 From: Rod Evans Reply-To: Rod.Evans@sun.com Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070423) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: psarc@sac.sfbay.sun.com CC: Russ Blaine , Rod Evans Subject: 2007/336 Bundled BCC for Solaris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 1969 I'm sponsoring the following fasttrack - timeout 06/15/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Summary and motivation. This proposal seeks to bundle bcc with Solaris. bcc is an open-source 8086 real-mode compiler. It is part of the Dev86 [1] Linux 8086 development environment. The Xen hypervisor [2] requires bcc in order to build the firmware for its fully-virtualized ("HVM") domain capability. Beyond building Xen, bcc will be useful for the development of other virtualization technologies on Solaris. For example, bcc is needed to compile VirtualBox [3] for Solaris. bcc may make Solaris a friendlier development platform for this type of low-level x86 development. 2. Technical issues of bcc inclusion. 2.1. bcc implementation and version. Version 0.16.17 of bcc is proposed for integration. It was released on January 23rd, 2005, indicating a slow and stable rate of change. Along with the compiler, the assembler and linker are also proposed for integration. Options for the commands provided are documented in the man pages, which have been placed in the case materials directory. 3. Interfaces. The following interfaces are proposed. Stability: Location Uncommitted Invocation Volatile Human-readable Output Volatile Exported Interfaces: SUNWbcc Uncommitted Package name /usr/bin/ar86 Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/as86 Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/bcc Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/ld86 Uncommitted Command 4. References. [1] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.debath/ [2] http://xen.sourceforge.net [3] http://www.virtualbox.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Release Binding: Update -- Rod. From Rod.Evans@sun.com Mon Jun 11 09:27:32 2007 Received: from jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (cretaceous [129.146.17.63] (may be forged)) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5BGRWR4029699 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.228.120] (chaz.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.228.120]) by jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5BGQ28t613685; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <466D771C.5000307@sun.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:23:56 -0700 From: Rod Evans Reply-To: Rod.Evans@sun.com Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070423) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: psarc-ext@sac.sfbay.sun.com CC: Russ Blaine , Rod Evans Subject: 2007/336 Bundled BCC for Solaris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 1997 RESENDING to psarc-ext. I'm sponsoring the following fasttrack - timeout 06/15/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Summary and motivation. This proposal seeks to bundle bcc with Solaris. bcc is an open-source 8086 real-mode compiler. It is part of the Dev86 [1] Linux 8086 development environment. The Xen hypervisor [2] requires bcc in order to build the firmware for its fully-virtualized ("HVM") domain capability. Beyond building Xen, bcc will be useful for the development of other virtualization technologies on Solaris. For example, bcc is needed to compile VirtualBox [3] for Solaris. bcc may make Solaris a friendlier development platform for this type of low-level x86 development. 2. Technical issues of bcc inclusion. 2.1. bcc implementation and version. Version 0.16.17 of bcc is proposed for integration. It was released on January 23rd, 2005, indicating a slow and stable rate of change. Along with the compiler, the assembler and linker are also proposed for integration. Options for the commands provided are documented in the man pages, which have been placed in the case materials directory. 3. Interfaces. The following interfaces are proposed. Stability: Location Uncommitted Invocation Volatile Human-readable Output Volatile Exported Interfaces: SUNWbcc Uncommitted Package name /usr/bin/ar86 Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/as86 Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/bcc Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/ld86 Uncommitted Command 4. References. [1] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.debath/ [2] http://xen.sourceforge.net [3] http://www.virtualbox.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Release Binding: Update -- Rod. From alan.coopersmith@sun.com Mon Jun 11 09:39:16 2007 Received: from sfbaymail1sca.SFBay.Sun.COM (sfbaymail1sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.154.35]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5BGdGlW029752 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (vpn-129-150-33-201.Central.Sun.COM [129.150.33.201]) by sfbaymail1sca.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l5BGbg6A020253; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <466D7A0F.20403@sun.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:36:31 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060602) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rod.Evans@sun.com CC: psarc-ext@sac.sfbay.sun.com, Russ Blaine Subject: Re: 2007/336 Bundled BCC for Solaris References: <466D771C.5000307@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <466D771C.5000307@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 313 Rod Evans wrote: > This proposal seeks to bundle bcc with Solaris. bcc is an > open-source 8086 > real-mode compiler. Will it be shipping on x86 only, or on SPARC too as a cross-compiler? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering From russell.blaine@sun.com Mon Jun 11 09:49:33 2007 Received: from zion.eng.sun.com (zion [129.146.17.75]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5BGnXGl000196 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.7.251.199] (punchin-rab [10.7.251.199]) by zion.eng.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5BGm0dL011650; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:48:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <466D7CCF.4030707@sun.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:48:15 -0700 From: Russ Blaine User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Coopersmith CC: Rod.Evans@sun.com, psarc-ext@sac.sfbay.sun.com Subject: Re: 2007/336 Bundled BCC for Solaris References: <466D771C.5000307@sun.com> <466D7A0F.20403@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <466D7A0F.20403@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Content-Length: 260 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Rod Evans wrote: >> This proposal seeks to bundle bcc with Solaris. bcc is an >> open-source 8086 >> real-mode compiler. > > Will it be shipping on x86 only, or on SPARC too as a cross-compiler? Sure, SPARC too. Why not...