Re: [win-pv-devel] More Win PV drivers ?

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Cerveny [mailto:martin@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 February 2017 09:51
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [win-pv-devel] More Win PV drivers ?
> 
> Hello.
> 
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Paul Durrant wrote:
> >> Is there (or preparing) new PVUSB driver for Win (to match
> improvements in xent4.7) ?
> >> And PVSND/PVAUDIO, PVSCSI, PVSTAT ... for xen4.9 ?
> >
> > There are no concrete plans for any new PV frontends. I am interested in
> > PVSCSI as I think it will allow a more streamlined data-path for
> > Windows.
> 
> Good news.
> 
> > I'm not sure that PVUSB will even be possible in Windows given
> > the closed nature of Microsoft's kernel APIs for USB.
> 
> Bad news (but M$ happens). Ok, I will try to use xhci over qemu (uhci/ehci
> generate big load and deliver low performance).
> And what about PVUSB as "VHCI/stubdriver" like
> http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ ?
> 

Thanks for the link, but it looks like that project dried up around the time 
Windows 8 came out... which is when, I believe, things got a whole load more 
restrictive. I do intend, at some point, to see if we can still do PV HID 
devices.

  Paul

> > but PV stats is my
> > proposal anyway so I do aim to get code in for that... but probably not
> > in the Xen 4.9 time-frame.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Thanks, Martin
> 
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >    Paul
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks, Martin Cerveny
> >>
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