From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: annie li Subject: Re: [For community review] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Sub-project Proposal Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: <53863070.8040109@oracle.com> References: <5385D9C6.2090105@xen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5385D9C6.2090105@xen.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: lars.kurth@xen.org Cc: "xen-api@lists.xenproject.org" , xen-users@lists.xenproject.org, "mirageos-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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