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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:41:42 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Cc: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>, "Jay Michlin"
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Subject: Re: Cougar OS Selection pros and cons
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We should make the person who decided to go little endian on a device
that is expected to do high throughput network processing do the
soldering work.  Oh, wait.  ~:^)

Cheers,

a


 On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:38:00 -0800 "Brian Stark"
<brian.stark@onstor.com> wrote:

> I believe we talked Andy into little endian in our meeting on Tuesday.
> Given that Bobcats in the field are hardwired to run little and that
> I'm not taking a soldering iron to all of our customers, we should
> stay with little endian!
> 
> 
> Brian
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maxim Kozlovsky 
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:25 PM
> > To: Andy Sharp
> > Cc: Jay Michlin; Jonathan Goldick; Tim Gardner; Larry Scheer; 
> > Brian Stark
> > Subject: RE: Cougar OS Selection pros and cons
> > 
> > Big endian? This is not going to work very well, txrx and fp 
> > run little endian and it is expected that we can just pass 
> > the structures around.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:04 PM
> > > To: Andy Sharp
> > > Cc: Jay Michlin; Jonathan Goldick; Tim Gardner; Larry Scheer;
> > > Maxim Kozlovsky; Brian Stark
> > > Subject: Re: Cougar OS Selection pros and cons
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:39:31 -0800 Andrew Sharp 
> > <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Attached please find the document I've prepared with input from 
> > > > several people that breaks out the pros and cons of various
> > > choices in
> > > > our quest to pick an OS for Cougar hardware platform.
> > > > 
> > > > Some have already seen an early version of this.  The 
> > changes from 
> > > > that version reflect a more succinct analysis of using our
> > > old OpenBSD
> > > > as well as a few minor touch ups.
> > > > 
> > > > Please review and comment by BoB Tuesday.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > a
> > > 
> > > Yeah, it helps if I attach the correct document.  Sorry everyone.
> > > Please destroy the previously sent document.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > a
> > > 
