Re: [For community review] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Sub-project Proposal

[annie li <annie.li@oracle.com>]

On 2014/5/28 8:42, Lars Kurth wrote:
>
> === Current Status ===
> Recent builds of the drivers are currently being tested by Citrix and 
> Amazon using the Microsoft HCK and Citrix will be providing 
> logo-signed builds of the drivers in future commercial Xen offerings. 
> Amazon are evaluating the drivers and may ship them in future AMIs.
> Citrix may also provide logo-signed drivers via Microsoft's Windows 
> Update mechanism, making them widely available to anyone running
> Windows under Xen (not just XenServer) without the need for them to 
> build the drivers themselves. Any other organization is also free to do
> the same by registering a top level PV device with the Xen community 
> (see http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/misc/pci-d
> evice-reservations.txt) and logo-signing their driver builds.

This is great idea!

>
> === Incubation ===
> The aim of making the Windows PV Drivers an incubated project is to 
> raise their profile to members of the Xen community other than Citrix
> and Amazon and hopefully gain more developer interest and 
> contribution. The driver set provide APIs to fundamental Xen 
> subsystems such
> as grant tables, event channels and xenstore and therefore provide a 
> basis for further frontends, e.g. HID (keyboard and mouse), PV audio
> and possibly framebuffer. Current maintainers of the driver 
> repositories are all employed by Citrix but by becoming an incubated 
> project we
> hope gain maintainers from the community as we build interest.

I also like the idea of pvaudio, windows is desktop, and user would like 
this.

Thanks
Annie