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List:       netbsd-port-sparc
Subject:    Re: SX, S24 and so on
From:       wettstein509 () solnet ! ch
Date:       2009-01-01 18:54:56
Message-ID: 87tz8izwjj.fsf () solnet ! ch
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> commands ). There's an IEEE paper describing the SX ( 'Pixel  
> processing in a memory controller', http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel1/38/8361/00364964.pdf 
>   ) but I have no idea to which level of detail - probably not enough  
> to write a driver - and it's not accessible without forking over some  
> money. Buying the cat in a bag.

I had a look at the paper.  It describes the architecture and the
instructions of the SX, but it does not provide opcodes and instruction
formats.  So your suspicion is probably right that it is not detailed
enough to write a driver.

Andreas
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