[K42-discussion] Support for BogusNet for the IBM CBEFul-System Simulator Platform

[Elvis John Dowson]

Hi,
      I cant seem to locate the netap application. I have a working cell
installation and also the K42 sources, but have not yet built the K42
sources yet.

Could you please tell me where netap is located ? I dont have a
mambo-host-tools directory.

Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon !

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson

-----Original Message-----
From: Michal Ostrowski [mailto:mostrows at watson.ibm.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:51 PM
To: Elvis John Dowson
Cc: 'Jimi Xenidis'; 'IBM Research K42 Discussion Forum'
Subject: RE: [K42-discussion] Support for BogusNet for the IBM CBEFul-System
Simulator Platform

Page 53 of the SystemSim_CmdRef.pdf (included in systemsim distribution)
describes how to use this.


On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:57 +0530, Elvis John Dowson wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I managed to compile and link in the mambonet driver into the cell
> full system simulator. 
> 
> When I launch the simulator, I can see a message that eth0 has initialized
> the bogus network driver. 
> 
> Ummmm, now I'm stuck because I dont have any documentation on how to use
the
> mambonet driver or use the simulated network interface on the simulator !!
> :-) 
> 
> Would it be possible for someone to kindly tell me the commands to use
this
> driver or the network interface from within the simulator ? 
> 
> The ping command is not available. ifconfig is available and runs,
although,
> I'm not sure of the results its returning. It appears to be configured
with
> a LOOPBACK interface and not the mambonet driver. 
> 
> If you could help me with the mambonet driver commands, it would be much
> appreciated. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Elvis Dowson 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimi Xenidis [mailto:jimix at watson.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 7:31 PM
> To: Elvis John Dowson
> Cc: 'IBM Research K42 Discussion Forum'
> Subject: Re: [K42-discussion] Support for BogusNet for the IBM CBE
> Ful-System Simulator Platform
> 
> Good news:
> K42 uses the IP and NIC drivers from Linux, so with some simple "back
> porting" the BogusNet driver from Linux should easily work with k42.
> 
> It is also important to note that k42 has an addition systemsim networking
> scenario that linux does not.  It is called "simip" and it allows the
entire
> TCP/IP stack to be offloaded increasing the performance of the simulated
> workload (since you are not simulating the stack).  The k42 source code
has
> more details on this works.
> 
> Bad news:
> However, K42 does not yet run on the Cell, since it has some architectural
> changes that we have not added to k42 yet.
> You could, however, obtain the IBM GPUL/970 Full System Simulator if you
> wish to run k42.
> 	http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/systemsim970
> 
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Elvis John Dowson wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >          I would like to know if a BogusNet network interface exists 
> > for the K42 platform and if it can be adapted for use with the IBM 
> > Cell Broadband Engine Full System Simulator.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am attempting to integrate a real-time UML model driven  
> > environment (Rhapsody v6.1) with the IBM CBE FSS platform. So far,  
> > I have managed to port the Rhapsody real-time UML OXF framework and  
> > generated code from the Rhapsody real-time UML models, successfully  
> > compiled and run it for a CBE PPU target.
> >
> >
> >
> > Using the OXF libraries and TCP/IP sockets, it is possible to  
> > animate the UML models on the host machine and inject events to  
> > control the application at run-time. Hence, its possible to  
> > simulate and debug the application design on the target.
> >
> >
> >
> > In order for me to be able to do this, I would need to have network  
> > support for the IBM CBE Full System Simulator. Would it be possible  
> > for someone to help me integrate or let me know how to develop or  
> > port a version of the BogusNet network interface to get it working  
> > on the IBM CBE FSS platform ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon !
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Elvis Dowson
> >
> >
> >
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> -JX
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