08-29-2013
Compiling BOINC/Seti@Home for OpenBSD 5.3 Sparc64
I used to use x86 Linux clients for this years ago, but ceased all activity until last night. I have resurrected an old Sun Blade 100, which used to run Solaris 9, when I first owned it, in the 2003 period, but now is very much alive with 2 gig of new ram, and and extra 10 gig of drive space for these types of projects.
I have to plug OpenBSD - these guys did a great job with this Sparc64 port for these older Sun boxes. Now this computer sits running actively, with nothing to do! So lets run Seti on it, but alas, no recent binary for OpenBSD Sparc64 seems to be found. Thus I tried last night to compile my own, but the _autosetup script fails saying it can't find M4 >= 1.4 (not true, I have latest), automake( not true I have latest), autoconf (not true I have latest). The only thing it finds is gmake, which passes. Is there some sort of special tailoring necessary for OpenBSD? Or has someone solved all these issues already and could help me out? Thanks, Richard.
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bscv(7D) Devices bscv(7D)
NAME
bscv, bscbus, i2bsc - Blade support chip interface driver
DESCRIPTION
The bscv, bscbus and i2bsc drivers interface with the Blade support chip used on Sun Microsystem's Blade server products. These drivers
provide a conduit for passing control, environmental, cpu signature and event information between Solaris and the Blade support chip.
These drivers do not export public interfaces. Instead they make information available via picl, prtdiag, prtfru and related tools. In
addition, these drivers log Blade support chip environmental event information into system logs.
FILES
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bscbus
64-bit ELF kernel driver
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bscv
64-bit ELF kernel driver
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/i2bsc
64-bit ELF kernel driver
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/bscbus
32-bit ELF kernel file (x86 only)
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/bscv
32-bit ELF kernel file (x86 only)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE |ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |Limited to systems with |
| |Blade Support Chip |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcar.u, SUNWcar.i |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SunOS 5.10 22 August 2003 bscv(7D)