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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:25:10 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Edge, Bruce" <Bruce.Edge@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: LSI Linux status
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:39:29 -0600 "Edge, Bruce" <Bruce.Edge@lsi.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> Just wanted to update you on what the unofficial position is on the
> Linux selection.
> 
> The RAID guys (including Craig Rolandelli) are an entrenched VxWorks
> bunch. If they ever have a problem with the OS, they throw money at
> VxWorks until the problem goes away. They have zero involvement in
> the actual OS form what I hear, hence this questionable relationship
> with Citrix.

I'm fine with people having a certain historical perspective, I'm not
fine with people being unrepentant ignorant asses.  Put another way, if
I needed to do something with vxworks, I would ask them, they obviously
know a lot about using it.  I don't think it's unreasonable for them to
do likewise.

> Regardless of what they are doing, we are forging ahead with
> Ubuntu/2.6.31 for dom0 and domU, and with Xen unstable. We are
> farther ahead of anyone else in terms of development and deliverable
> requirements so we're setting the standard. We may try to merge with
> the OSA (and RAID) guys in the future, at which point it will fall to
> Citrix to backport every feature we are currently using from Xen
> unstable and debian dom0.

Interesting.  Maybe we'll send out for your stuff when we get there, as
it's obviously what we will want as well.  I suggested to Nelson that
he endorse the Citrix check over to your group and you'll be happy to
produce and support exactly what we need for an extra .5 million ~:^)

> I'm not really worried about what OSA does in the mean time. They are
> so far behind in the development that they really don't matter at
> this point.

I'm ignorant of the difference between OSA and Orion.  Or maybe I'm
just not completely following what your getting at.

I'm focusing my team on getting our stuff inside of Linux and then to
x86.  Our whole plan for dovetailing with Orion is dependent on those
two steps.  I'm largely ignoring anything else.  Especially certain
good-for-nothing-loud-mouth-program-managers.

Cheers,

a
