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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:40:46 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Stark, Brian" <Brian.Stark@lsi.com>
Cc: "Scheer, Larry" <Larry.Scheer@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: Question about ONstor work
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Well, they're all good guys -- UNTIL THEY GO BAD!! -- but actually I
was thinking more about how to couch the answer, since this "linux
flavor" thing can mean so many different things to different people.

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:36:01 -0700 "Stark, Brian" <Brian.Stark@lsi.com>
wrote:

> Yep, this is legit.  He reports to Ken Gibson -- I've met Ken, and
> he's a good guy.  
> 
> Just so we're on the same page, I've told people that we're
> evaluating the move to .31 and that we don't anticipate any major
> issues.  If there are, then the NAS VM may need to stay on .22 and
> the ServerEngines driver for the NIC will be back-ported from .31
> to .22.  They would do the work for that, not us.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@lsi.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:40 AM
> To: Scheer, Larry
> Cc: Sharp, Andy; Stark, Brian
> Subject: Re: Question about ONstor work
> 
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:32:50 -0700 "Scheer, Larry"
> <Larry.Scheer@lsi.com> wrote:
> 
> > I looked at Rick's employee info here:
> > http://mysite.lsi.com/Person.aspx?guid=8798280C-39D9-4F6C-A2FC-3F0C8A4D1FB9
> > Nothing too revealing there. It just confirms he is who he says he
> > is.
> > 
> > I too would like to know what flavor of Debian Linux we will be
> > using... ;-)
> 
> Debian *is* the flavor.
> 
> > Larry
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Andrew Sharp [andy.sharp@lsi.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:00 AM
> > To: Stark, Brian
> > Cc: Scheer, Larry
> > Subject: Fw: Question about ONstor work
> > 
> > We need to know who this person is and what's going on before we
> > respond to this.  He should have been able to get everything he
> > needed from Bruce so if he didn't, then there must be a reason.
> > Nothing sinister, just want to know how best to answer him.
> > 
> > Brian, do you know what the story is with this person?
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:25:18 -0700
> > From: "McNeal, Rick" <Rick.McNeal@lsi.com>
> > To: "Sharp, Andy" <Andy.Sharp@lsi.com>, "Scheer, Larry"
> > <Larry.Scheer@lsi.com> Subject: Question about ONstor work
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My name is Rick McNeal and I work in ESG's Advanced Development
> > Group. Bruce Edge indicated that you both are working on ONstor's
> > project to move the proprietary code to Linux. Is that correct?
> > 
> > I'm trying to find out what version of Linux you're targeting, what
> > build environment you're going to use, and which Linux distribution
> > your product will be based on. The reason I'm looking for this
> > information is I'm trying to get a handle on how many flavors of
> > Linux LSI might need to support. In particular, at some point the
> > ONstor work will run inside of a domU and use the coupling driver
> > that's being developed in India. I've been working with Bruce to
> > get this driver ported to his team's project and we'll need to
> > think about your needs as well.
> > 
> > So, I'm just hunting for information at this point.
> > ----
> > Rick McNeal
> > rick.mcneal@lsi.com
> > 
