RE: RE: GPL Win PV driver issues

[Brian Wolfe <brianw@terrabox.com>]

I burned 2 hours attempting to track it down but every link redirected
me to look in the MSDN area which is behind an MSDN membership password.
8-(

I'm guessing that there is no chance that the win2003 drivers will work
under nt2kpro?

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:45 +1100, James Harper wrote:
> Assuming nothing has changed in the last 6 months or so, the DDK is
> available at no cost on the MS web site, but it is a bit tricky to track
> down.
> 
> Have another look around...
> 
> James
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Wolfe [mailto:brianw@terrabox.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2008 06:06
> > To: James Harper
> > Cc: xen-devel
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: GPL Win PV driver issues
> > 
> > I wish I could help out a bit by compiling for nt2k pro but
> > unfortunately MS wants me to buy their developers subscription for
> $1k+
> > USD. 8-( I can't afford that kind of cash. *sigh*
> > 
> > If anyone can front me the necessary installables for compiling the
> > windows PV drivers I'm willing to have a go at helping out. :)
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:17 +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been thinking about this. Isn't it possible to allow both
> QEMU
> > > and
> > > > PV devices to exist, and create a combined HW/PV driver? I.e., a
> > > driver
> > > > for both the emulated device under Windows (as a later version
> than
> > > the
> > > > one shipped in Windows). Then, if really running under Xen, the
> driver
> > > > instructs dom0 to optionally terminate the QEMU server side and
> use
> > > the
> > > > PV approach for communication.
> > > >
> > > > As the emulated devices are well understood (and there's QEMU's
> > > source),
> > > > would this be hard to do?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The way I've implemented the driver for the Xen PCI device is that
> it
> > > becomes a bus driver and enumerates the things under 'devices' in
> > > xenstore (eg vbd, vif, console) and then drivers attach to those.
> > >
> > > For your idea to work, a single driver would need to attach to both
> the
> > > emulated PCI disk/network adapter, and the Xen PV device. I don't
> think
> > > this is possibly under the windows driver model.
> > >
> > > But I've only been writing windows drivers for a few months now, so
> > > there's probably a lot of stuff I don't know :)
> > >
> > > James
> > >
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