annie li
2014-May-28 18:52 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [For community review] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Sub-project Proposal
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