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Hypervisor/Sun4v Reference Materials

OpenSPARC Hypervisor

GitHub Repo

Architecture Specifications

ARC Cases

The following is a list of sun4v-related ARC cases. A request has been made to open them for public access via the OpenSolaris ARC community. This list will be updated with links to the open cases, links with errors point to as-of-yet un-opened cases.

Update: arc.opensolaris.org appears to be gone so all of the links below are useless. The canonical location of the below list is now on the cpubringup wiki inside the Oracle network. This version will no longer be updated.

Core sun4v

FWARC 2004/510 Project Q Umbrella (sun4v/hypervisor)
FWARC 2005/116 sun4v core APIs
FWARC 2005/251 diagnostic APIs
FWARC 2005/499 sun4v core version API
FWARC 2006/052 sun4v version API update
FWARC 2005/367 sun4v watchdog API
FWARC 2006/093 sun4v watchdog API update
FWARC 2006/199 sun4v watchdog API fn correction
FWARC 2008/134 Hypervisor support for Hardware Watchdog Timer
FWARC 2006/323 sun4v console read/write hv APIs
FWARC 2006/473 sun4v guest state API update
FWARC 2006/542 Guest State Supported CIF
FWARC 2006/074 sun4v interrupt cookies

Machine Description

FWARC 2005/115 machine description
FWARC 2006/110 Domain Services MD node and other misc properties
FWARC 2006/545 max-vcpu and mondo-latency MD properties
FWARC 2007/480 sun4v Cpu MD node property updates
FWARC 2007/070 Machine Description IO Device Node Definitions
FWARC 2007/386 Machine Description IO Device Node Definition Updates
FWARC 2007/122 VIO MD node updates
FWARC 2007/260 Machine Description Latency Node Descriptions
FWARC 2007/689 LDOMs support for RN (MD rng property update)
FWARC 2008/270 PCI Address MD Node Properties
FWARC 2008/563 Virtual Domain Service MD nodes and misc. properties
FWARC 2008/349 New MD Nodes to Support I/O Reconfiguration for Failover Conditions.
FWARC 2009/300 CPU MD node property for real address bits
FWARC 2009/521 Bandwidth Resource Control
FWARC 2009/680 Domain UUID Property
FWARC 2010/034 Updates to Virtual CPU node “compatible” property
FWARC 2011/121 New “mtu” property in “iov-device-class-props” nodes in VIO MD specification
FWARC 2011/312 Deprecate MD property “intr” on T3/T4 platforms

PRI

FWARC 2006/700 Physical Resource Inventory (PRI)
FWARC 2007/138 Updates to PRI structures
FWARC 2008/467 PRI Specification modification
FWARC 2008/768 PRI Versioning
FWARC 2009/061 PRI: “path” property requirement
FWARC 2009/169 “max_guest_dependencies” property requirement in PRI
FWARC 2009/281 PRI clarifications for hostbridge id & PCI-E root complex node
FWARC 2009/644 Updates to PRI for Static Direct IO (PCI-E Virtualization)
FWARC 2010/066 PRI enhancements to support Memory Power Management & Power Cap
FWARC 2010/090 Update to PRI to remove erroneous rcid property
FWARC 2010/185 PRI Changes for Direct Attached Disks
FWARC 2010/371 Update to PRI Specification to clarify the definition of certain component node properties
FWARC 2011/115 PRI updates for SRIOV Root Complex Resource Allocation
FWARC 2011/272 PRI update to specify maximum number of HV memory blocks

I/O

FWARC 2005/112 io APIs
FWARC 2006/474 pci io hv iommu attributes update
FWARC 2009/050 Hypervisor API Improvements for VPCI DMA Sync
FWARC 2009/213 dma-sync-options property under PCI Express Root Complex
FWARC 2009/268 minor clarifications to sun4v io_api.txt
FWARC 2009/537 Static Direct I/O HV IO API Updates
FWARC 2009/536 Static Direct I/O Bridge Emulation
FWARC 2009/535 Static Direct I/O Loaned Device Node specification
FWARC 2010/137 sun4v io api vpci v2.0
FWARC 2011/123 PF Device Binding update
FWARC 2011/124 SRIOV VF firmware spec
FWARC 2011/125 SRIOV PF emulation spec

Error Handling

FWARC 2006/200 sun4v error handling
FWARC 2006/201 sun4v error handling update
FWARC 2009/070 sun4v error handling update (ATTR.ST_STATE addition)

Niagara Platform

FWARC 2005/173 Hypervisor Service API
FWARC 2005/164 sun4v Niagara CPU API
FWARC 2005/467 Niagara mmustat HV API

Niagara 2 Platform

FWARC 2006/556 NIU/SIU Device Tree Bindings and Machine Description Definitions
FWARC 2006/524 Niagara2 Network Interface Unit Hypervisor API
FWARC 2006/429 Niagara2 Perf Regs HV API
FWARC 2006/498 Niagara2 PIU Perf Counters HV API
FWARC 2008/248 Niagara2 NIU Hypervisor API Extensions
FWARC 2008/402 Niagara2 NIU Hypervisor API Extensions v2.0
FWARC 2008/552 New Max Frame Size Property For NIU Hybrid IO

Niagara Crypto

FWARC 2006/567 Niagara Crypto & RNG compatible property update
FWARC 2006/174 NCS HV update
FWARC 2006/481 Niagara-2 Random Number Generator API
FWARC 2006/567 Niagara Crypto & RNG compatible property update
FWARC 2007/071 Niagara2 Crypto Name Property Update
~~FWARC 2006/425~~ NCS HV API Update 2
FWARC 2009/451 NCS HV API Update 2.1
FWARC 2011/312 Deprecate MD property “intr” on T3/T4 platforms

Victoria Falls Platform

FWARC 2007/237 Victoria Falls Perf Regs HV API
FWARC 2007/529 Victoria Falls Perf Reg API Update
FWARC 2007/558 N2/VF Random Number Generator HV API update

Rock Platform

FWARC 2007/462 MEM_IFLUSH Hypervisor API call
FWARC 2008/564 MEM_IFLUSH_ALL Hypervisor API call
FWARC 2008/398 Hypervisor API for Transactional Memory Configuration
FWARC 2008/399 Rock Performance Counters/Samplers Hypervisor API
FWARC 2008/401 MMU TLB page search Hypervisor API
FWARC 2008/592 MMU_EXT API group name and number change

KT Platform

FWARC 2008/613 KT IOS Performance Counters API
FWARC 2009/434 KT IOS Performance Counters API Update
FWARC 2008/615 KT Perf Reg HV API
FWARC 2011/076 Generalize IOS PERFREG API group and name

VT Platform

FWARC 2011/009 VT Performance Counters API

Parallel Boot

FWARC 2009/567 Parallel Boot HV APIs
FWARC 2009/070 sun4v error report ATTR.SP_STATE
FWARC 2009/655 sun4v error report ATTR.SP_STATE update

Power Management

FWARC 2011/012 CPU active power domain MD node and API

LDoms

FWARC 2006/055 Domain Services
FWARC 2006/141 FMA Domain Services
FWARC 2006/571 Corrections of LDC protocol
FWARC 2006/583 VIO protocol updates
FWARC 2006/594 ASR Domain Service
FWARC 2006/701 PRI Domain Service
FWARC 2007/133 SNMP Domain Service
FWARC 2007/363 VIO vDisk MD node updates
FWARC 2007/602 VIO vDisk Protocol Updates
FWARC 2007/672 VIO vDisk protocol updates
FWARC 2007/671 System Information Domain Services 1.0
FWARC 2008/016 VIO vNet/vSwitch MD node updates
FWARC 2008/017 VIO Protocol Update
FWARC 2008/228 VIO vNet/vSwitch changes to support VLANs
FWARC 2008/229 Virtual IO DR Domain Service
FWARC 2008/246 Virtual IO Dynamic Device Service
FWARC 2008/296 Crypto Unit DR Domain Service
FWARC 2006/184 sun4v channels shared memory
FWARC 2008/424 sun4v channels shared memory update
FWARC 2008/455 FMA IO Domain Service
FWARC 2008/540 Memory DR Domain Service
FWARC 2008/553 VIO vNet/vSwitch changes to support jumbo frames
FWARC 2008/563 Virtual Domain Service MD nodes and misc. properties
FWARC 2008/623 Improved Error Reporting for DR Domain Services
FWARC 2008/696 Virtual Domain Service Domain Name Properties
FWARC 2009/195 VIO vNet/vSwitch support for physical link state information
FWARC 2009/452 HV APIs for cooperative guest migration
FWARC 2009/559 Domain Suspend Domain Service
FWARC 2009/609 Direct I/O Agent
FWARC 2010/054 VIO vNet/vSwitch support for Rx Dring Data mode
FWARC 2010/058 Logical Domains Agent Chassis Serial Number Message
FWARC 2010/104 Allocate LDC mapping Table
FWARC 2010/389 Machine Description Updates for PCIe IOV
FWARC 2010/396 Virtual PCI Proxy driver and VIO PCI Protocol
FWARC 2010/435 VIO vSwitch update to enable/disable inter-domain network links
FWARC 2011/117 Update to Suspend Domain Service for Cross CPU Migration
FWARC 2011/011 PM Resource Manager Domain Service 1.0

Trusted Platform Module

FWARC 2009/367 HV APIs for accessing TPM registers

Hypervisor

FWARC 2011/019 Hypervisor Control Interface
FWARC 2011/024 HVCTL Interface Updates for Live Migration
FWARC 2011/103 Buffer Alignment for Live Migration HVCTL Interface
FWARC 2011/217 hvctl protocol version number corrections

FWARC 2005/111 Sun4v Bus Binding to Open Firmware
FWARC 2006/276 Netra T2000 Tsalarm Service Channel
FWARC 2006/352 Montoya IPMI service channel
FWARC 2006/434 Third Party Remote Management Software Service Channel
FWARC 2007/107 Update to Third Party Remote Management Software Service Channel
FWARC 2008/788 FW Progress State Domain Service
FWARC 2010/150 Platform Specific NIU SERDES and PHY values
FWARC 2011/061 hv-api-groups root-node property (OBP)