From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: Windows DDK and GPL Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:59:24 +0300 Message-ID: <20070924095924.GL5028@edu.joroinen.fi> References: <46F412F0.9070303@virtualiron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46F412F0.9070303@virtualiron.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Steve Ofsthun Cc: James Harper , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:52:32PM -0400, Steve Ofsthun wrote: > > Our Windows driver set is built using the Microsoft DDK. > > Aside from any legal issues, our implementation of HVM live migrate is not > binary compatible with the current Xen 3.1 release. This and other > compatibility issues (our 32 bit drivers use the same ring protocol as our > 64 bit drivers) would prevent you from using our drivers directly. This is > not a planned divergence, rather a consequence of getting something to work > reliably enough to ship at various points since 3.0.2. Over time we have > been converging with generic XEN and at some future date I would expect > binary compatibility. > > If a source distribution was not available, would a binary release be of > any use? > I'm sure many Xen users would be more than happy to have binary versions of windows pv drivers! Much better than no drivers at all.. -- Pasi > Hope this helps, > Steve > -- > Steve Ofsthun - Virtual Iron Software, Inc. >