DEC Alpha OSF-1 Installation

See this note about DEC Firmware first

The Dec OSF-1 driver was developed at Duke Univeristy and the University of Colorado.

The driver is NOT a loadable module and requires some extra complexity to configure/install because the Myrinet API uses C++ code.

First, run the myri.INIT script as described in the Configuring Software document.

The dec_osf1 distribution comes with a pre-compiled "myri.mod" that you can farily easily compile into a new kernel.

To install the driver 


  cd ../src/dec_osf1/install

  Follow the instructions in the README file.


Here are the basic installation instructions for the Binary kit.  It
uses some funky DEC autoconfiguration stuff, so that all one needs to
do is the following.  Its important to note that, using this
mechanism, the kernel config file needn't be modified.  Rather, the
config program gets its config file entry from
/opt/MYRI001/driver/OSFBASE4xx/config.file

o unpack into /; the kit should go into /opt/MYRI001/driver/OSFBASE4xx

o cd /sys/conf

o cat /opt/MYRI001/driver/OSFBASE4xx/product.list >> .product.list

o cat $MYRI_HOME/src/dec_osf1/driver/myri.stanza >> /etc/sysconfigtab

o rm CONFIGNAME.list

o doconfig -c CONFIGNAME

If you really want to recompile the module from sources (you really don't want to do this), then try the following install procedure. The challengs is that the myriAPI uses C++ code and the DEC build procedure is not happy with that.

To install the driver using sources... 


  cd ../src/dec_osf1/driver
 
Edit 'Install' to update the MAKE variable to point to GnuMake
 
su 
./INSTALL
 
If you have problems, send mail to

Once you have rebuilt a new kernel, you need to copy it to /vmunix (but save your old vmunix), then reboot. When the system comes up again, you need to run the myri.INIT script as described in the Configuring Software document.


Instructions for installing M2F-PCI32 cards in Digital Personal Workstation series machines:

For good performance on the Personal Workstation series machines, one needs to have the Myrinet card plugged into PCI slots 4 or 5. In order to do this, one needs a revision of the SRM console firmware which contains the 'pci_device_override' environment variable.

You can find the most recent firmware here.

After installing the proper firmware revision & *BEFORE* installing the card (the box will not boot with the card in it, rather it will give a nasty message telling you to remove the card) do the folloing: 

    >>> set pci_device_override 804310e8
Now power down the machine, install the Myrinet card in slot 4 or 5, power up the machine.

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