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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:12:24 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Kingsbury, Brent" <Brent.Kingsbury@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: Mips processor revision in Cougar [Have I mentioned I hate
 being a wimp? :-) ]
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xpdf from like 4 years ago works just fine, so does any version of
acrobat reader.

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:47:08 -0700 "Kingsbury, Brent"
<Brent.Kingsbury@lsi.com> wrote:

> Andy:
> 
> You replied very quickly with the "not virtually tagged" answer
> which was immediately helpful.  And then you provided these obviously
> cool docs which made my heart veritably leap with joy (editor's note:
> don't get carried away), and ... then it's quickly apparent they
> are encrypted since you 1) gave a password, and 2) I definitely
> can't read them as they are.
> 
> But to use the password, do I have to install some kind of Adobe
> "Professional" suite costing LSI dollars to get at these?  Or is there
> some other ridiculously obvious way that I've failed to find to this
> point?  I've never worked with encrypted Adobe docs before, and after
> trying various things and google searches which show Adobe things
> that I've not been able to find with my existing Adobe install,
> I'm wimping out with this email....  We're talking Agony of Defeat
> here. :-)
> 
> Thanks for any/all suggestions,
> 
> --BK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@lsi.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:21 PM
> To: Kingsbury, Brent
> Subject: Re: Mips processor revision in Cougar
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:51:13 -0700 "Kingsbury, Brent"
> <Brent.Kingsbury@lsi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > Dave Olien and I were briefly chatting up here about a particular
> > TuxStor issue he's working on, and we wanted to verify that the data
> > caches in the MIPS processors are physically tagged (not virtually
> > tagged).
> 
> Not virtually tagged ~:^)
> 
> > Dave found some old documentation (I think he found it just by web
> > browsing), that says that the caches are physically tagged, but that
> > document was dated back to 2002.  But I am left wondering, what MIPS
> > processor revision are we using?  And can we find the manuals for it
> > online somewhere?  (I've even tried looking at the photos from
> > cougar bring-up, but the processors are buried under heat sinks
> > concealing their secret identity).
> 
> 2002 is quite recent for MIPS.  Most of these "modern" MIPS variants
> are based on the MIPS-IV/MIPS-64 spec that was eons ago.  In other
> words, back when I was a youngster.
> 
> We are using two Sibyte processors, the 1125 and 1480, currently, in
> Cougars.  You can find the manuals in PDF form in
> 
> /n/hardware/Cougar/specs/blah-de-blah
> 
> password is docs2020
> 
> Let me know if you can't find them, I'll dig them up and email 'em to
> ya.  If you really want an education, _See MIPS Run Linux_ is an
> astounding book.  Simply a Bible.  It's the only one I've ever had to
> use.  Nothing left out, lot's of Linux specifics, tons of historical
> info, it's truely amazing.
