I too give this proposal a "+1" and will be your project facilitator.
I'll keep this proposal open until 12-June for further comment. After
that time I'll work with you Susan on the next steps.
Thanks for this outstanding proposal!
--jc
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Jeff Cheeney | OpenSolaris Storage Community |
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On 06/06/08 08:43, John Forte wrote:
> +1
>
> Susan E. Scheufele wrote:
>
>> The mega_sas driver provides support for LSI's MegaRAID SAS cards and exists
>> in the Open side of the OpenSolaris tree as of build 88
>> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008041401/).
>> The code is provided under the 3 clause BSD license.
>>
>> We would like to establish an OpenSolaris project for mega_sas to continue
>> development, with storage-discuss as the proposed discussion list.
>>
>> Our initial goals for mega_sas are around hardening and configuration
>> management:
>>
>> - adding FMA support
>> - make it warlock-clean
>> - make it work with cfgadm(1M)
>> - driver cleanup:
>> - changes to make it lint clean,
>> - removal of un-needed code, and
>> - use of #defines rather than hard-coded constants
>>
>> Our longer-term goals are:
>>
>> - add power management support
>> - add hotplug support
>> - add 64bit DMA support
>> - migrate memory allocation to use kmem caches, and
>> - add kstats
>>
>> This project will be associated with the Storage Community.
>>
>> Initial project leaders:
>> James McPherson, Sun (jmcp)
>> Susan Scheufele, Sun (susans)
>> Yongfeng Du, Sun (dolpher)
>>
>>
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