Re: [Gems-users] Starting Checkpoints

[Dan Gibson <degibson@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
That was some unfortunate wording on my part. Let me clarify.

I should have said:
"It is essential to use a SPARC target with Opal, and advisable to use a 
SPARC target with Ruby. The exception is using Ruby with the x86 patch."
Regards,
Dan

mehmetderin.harmanci@xxxxxxx wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>   
> > It is essential that you use the "sarek" target when using GEMS, which
> > is a serengeti (Sun/SPARC) machine. Ruby (the memory hierarchy
> > simulator) expects to interface with the sarek configuration.
> >
> >     
>     Sorry to meddle in the discussion here but just a quick question:
>    Can we only use sarek target with GEMS? Is sunfire not compatible
>    (As far as I know it is also a Sun/SPARC machine (but it simulates
>    UltraSPARC II instead of UltraSPARC III or IV) ?
>    I was using sunfire target and so far everything seems to work fine.
>    However, I have not used opal yet. Would it be a problem if I try to
>    use opal with sunfire target?
>
>       Thanks,
>
>              Derin Harmanci.
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