[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-users] about the latest commits to the gplpv (windows PV drivers) hg tree
If anyone is building the gplpv drivers from the hg tree please read this... The way that the qemu ide and network drivers were being hidden is not really correct from a Microsoft 'right way to do things' point of view. It also did not work during Windows textmode (press F6 to load addition drivers) install time. I'm experimenting with getting qemu to disable the devices there, instead of persuading Windows to ignore them, which should be a lot safer, but obviously requires a patch to qemu. GPLPV will still disable the qemu devices on the windows side of things for the time being, but at the moment they appear as drivers that failed to start. Additionally, I am removing the /GPLPV flag to boot.ini and instead am introducing a /NOGPLPV flag (eg you need a flag to disable the drivers, instead of adding a flag to enable them), again to support textmode install. As per a patch from Steve Meisner, safe mode will also disable the GPLPV drivers so there should be no 'painting yourself into a corner'. Finally, Windows 2000 drivers will no longer be built as part of the installer. They didn't work anyway, and I got tired of adding in code to work around the missing API functions that I needed in Windows 2000 just to get it to build, when I knew it didn't actually run. There is nothing to stop anyone building under Windows 2000 themselves though (the build will fail but there is only once call in there currently that causes that). With sufficient incentive I could get them working 2000, but it's not a priority at the moment. So to summarise - if you do build from hg please test carefully. Thanks James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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