<div dir="ltr">Can you please point me to the instructions on how to send the patch?<div>As for the free q list issue, we enabled driver verifier and under stress it bugchecked in RtlpCheckListEntry.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Robles, Raymond C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com" target="_blank">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0">Hello,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0">We always welcome companies to submit patches for candidate features. No other company has volunteered for concurrent channels at this time. We would gladly
welcome your patch at your earliest convenience. The first release for 2015 is planned for ~August/September... would you like to volunteer for this patch prior to this release?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0">As for a race condition synchronization fix for FreeQList, could you please describe the issue you were seeing and how you addressed it?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#0070c0">Ray<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Iuliu Rus [mailto:<a href="mailto:iuliur@google.com" target="_blank">iuliur@google.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nvmewin] OFA Release Plan: Release #1 2015 -- Call for patch volunteers<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are the google compute engine team and we already have Concurrent channels working. We're still figuring out how we can integrate between our internal repo and svn. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you still need this feature?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also have a synchronization fix for a race that corrupted FreeQList.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Robles, Raymond C <<a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com" target="_blank">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">All,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I just wanted to send out a quick update on the release plans for 2015. We’ve had two more companies volunteer to submit patches this year: Samsung (Suman)
and HGST (Tom). Thank you to both companies for volunteering!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Here is the updated release plan for 2015. Unfortunately, some of the patch submissions will be a little later than originally planned. Therefore, I
would like to ask the question: <b><u>is everyone ok if we push the first release out until end of August to allow for more patches to be submitted?</u></b> You can response publicly or just to me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Other alternatives would include just having smaller releases at different cadences. I’m open to any ideas since there are still many requests for features
that have claimed for patch submission.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#44546a">2015 Release #1 (Q2/Q3 – 2015)</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Start I/O Concurrent Channels allows StartIo to be called in parallel resulting in improved IOPS.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Instead of learning cores, use perf opts. Shave off 2 seconds in init code… using Storport initialize perf opts. No need for source core interrupt steering
code in driver. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Samsung (Suman)<u></u><u></u></p>
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End of June<u></u><u></u></p>
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Samsung (Suman)<u></u><u></u></p>
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End of July<u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">EOL - Read Only</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Samsung (Suman)<u></u><u></u></p>
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End of August<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Namespace Mgmt</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Intel (Carolyn)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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End of June<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#44546a">2015 Release #2 (Q4 – 2015)</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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HGST (Tom)<u></u><u></u></p>
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Mid-November<u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Temp Thresholds</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Live FW Update</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Atomicity</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Atomicity Enhancements</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Win 10</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">SNTL</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">SNTL 1.5 doc updates</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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HGST (Tom)<u></u><u></u></p>
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End of August<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">WHQL</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">WHQL test suite run (any bug fixes) - for each release of OFA</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<TBD><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks,
</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ray</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 09, 2015 5:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] OFA Release Plan: Release #1 2015 -- Call for patch volunteers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">All,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">As we enter Q2, I’m happy to announce that we a have a very good feature plan in place for both Q2 and Q4 releases in 2015 of the OFA driver. The list
of requested features is included below for final review. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a;background:yellow">I would like to formally ask for volunteers for patch submissions.</span><span style="color:#44546a"> As of today, there are no volunteers
for any of the below patches. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Intel would like to start with the volunteering… we will volunteer to provide the namespace management patch.
</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#44546a">2015 Release #1 (Q2/Q3 – 2015)</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Feature</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Description</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Submitter</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Date</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Concurrent Channels</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Start I/O Concurrent Channels allows StartIo to be called in parallel resulting in improved IOPS.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="color:black">Perf Opts</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Instead of learning cores, use perf opts. Shave off 2 seconds in init code… using Storport initialize perf opts. No need for source core interrupt steering
code in driver. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">Samsung (Suman)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="color:#1f497d">End of June</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Win 8.1 Timers</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Storport Notification usage. Hot plug and IOCTLs, this does not work, for Win8.1… StorportRequestTimer() function needed.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">Samsung (Suman)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">End of July</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="color:black">CFS Bit Monitoring</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">CFS bit monitoring and handling. Look into adding additional handling code just to monitor CSTS.CFS.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">EOL - Read Only</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Read only support for devices at EOL. Detection at init, hot plug, or run-time.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">Samsung (Suman)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="color:#1f497d">End of August</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Namespace Mgmt</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Namespace management - creation and deletion of namespaces.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Intel (Carolyn)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="color:black">End of</span><span style="color:#1f497d"> June</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">WHQL</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">WHQL test suite run (any bug fixes).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#44546a">2015 Release #2 (Q4 – 2015)</span></u></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Feature</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Description</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Submitter</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:white">Date</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Multi-Path</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Multipath feature set from 1.1 spec (Multi-path I/O, Namespace Sharing, Reservations)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">HGST (Tom)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">Mid-November</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">RTD3</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Active/idle RTD3</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Temp Thresholds</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Temperature thresholds (Get/Set Feature and AER trigger)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Live FW Update</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Live firmware update</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Atomicity</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Win 10</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">SNTL</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">SNTL 1.5 doc updates</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">HGST (Tom)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#1f497d">End of August</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">WHQL</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black"><TBD></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Thanks,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Ray</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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