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Subject: RE: PROM items for cougar & linux
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:32:55 -0700
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From: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	"Warren Gale" <warren.gale@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>,
	"Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>

Thanks Andy.  Warren and I will take a look and get back to you.


Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp=20
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:27 AM
> To: Brian Stark; Warren Gale
> Cc: Tim Gardner; Larry Scheer
> Subject: PROM items for cougar & linux
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> Hi Guys,
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> PROM time, and I'm your date.  Hah.  I kill myself.
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> Here's the list of q's and todo's:
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> Why are we reserving 48MB for the PROM at the beginning of memory?
> Seems like a way huge amount and I'd like to cut it back by,=20
> oh, 40 MB.  Makes more of a difference on Bobcat than Cougar,=20
> but we can always make use of memory.
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> Booting off CF:
> 	* addition of ext3 support (libext3)
> 	* DOS partition support: linux uses regular DOS partitions
> 	  with no funny stuff.  Maybe already is in there.
> Cougar:
> 	* ELF64 loader for Cougar would be nice but not required.
> 	* CFE API support for Cougar: memory layout
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> We have to decide who is going to do what.
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> Thanks,
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