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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:34:13 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: dl-cougar@onstor.com, Jonathan Goldick <jonathan.goldick@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Followup discussion with Wind River
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We should probably get Jonathan involved in this, as I subsequently had
a discussion with him about this and he seemed to think that it would
not be as valuable as I initially thought it might.

Cheers,

a

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:56:21 -0800 "Jay Michlin"
<jay.michlin@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy, Larry and I met again with Wind River today, as planned. The
> discussion was limited because of the approaching holiday, but the
> exchange was still a good one.
> 
> Our interest has always been in the possibility of exploiting Wind
> River's sensor/probe/workbench software tools for development and
> maintenance of Cougar. Notably they could help us find and fix obscure
> memory leaks, among other things, both during initial development and
> later when the product is in the field. Andy has previous experience
> with these tools and reports that they are both powerful and
> applicable to our situation.
> 
> We concluded that this could be done in fairly straightforward fashion
> if we were to run VxWorks on our embedded cores with our own real time
> OS (such as it is) as a task. This would readily give us access to all
> the Wind River tools. We could do this strictly for debug
> environments, while the shipped product would have our OS without
> VxWorks.
> 
> We agreed to think more about this, and I said I will contact Wind
> River with an update the first week in January.
> 
> jay
> 
> 
