Re: [Xen-users] What does viridian=1 do?

[Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>]

Am 21.08.2009 04:23, schrieb James Harper:
> > > > So for faster IO you need GPLPV drivers.
> > > I still would vote for further investigation and development on viridian
> > > enlighten IO. It would bring us out of the hell with driver signing, and
> > > would also make a lot of stuff easier from the users stand.
> > > The work of James Harper is pretty good but for 2008 x64 more than just
> > > far away from ready for production.
> > Yes, definitely that would be good.
> >
> > Feel free to start working on it :) I believe the needed viridian interfaces
> > can be seen at least from linux hyper-v driver (linux-ic). Also iirc ms
> > released some docs about the interfaces.
> You are talking about reverse engineering a backend driver to match the 
> frontend driver in Linux. That would certainly be an interesting project, but I 
> wonder how Microsoft would feel about it :)
>
> James
Uhm, James you have the best knowledge about this topic (the other way 
around), would you say this is a real gap? Or is the GPLPV-driver on the 
way to fill it anyway soon, especially are there plans to get the 
drivers signed? As I see it there wouldn't be any other proper solutions 
for this topic.
Florian
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