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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:45:07 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "McNeal, Rick" <Rick.McNeal@lsi.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about ONstor work
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:25:18 -0700 "McNeal, Rick" <Rick.McNeal@lsi.com>
wrote:

> 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

Howdy Rick,

We did some discussing to come up with a flavor that we thought would
be good and it took about 4 seconds for the cognisenti to all agree on
Debian stable with a 2.6.31 kernel.  But there's a lot unsaid there.
However the idea is to try and achieve some flash usage savings by
sharing user space binary images and so forth, as well as just help
ourselves out.

The build environment will be the standard gnu C compiler in that Debian
release.

Hope that's helpful.

Cheers,

a
