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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">It has been brought to my attention that the open source QEMU repo does not contain the version that supports NVMe. In short, there is a patch awaiting to
be pushed, but the maintainer of the QEMU repo has numerous comments around the patch and this has stalled the integration of NVMe support into the master QEMU repo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">In lieu of this, I’ve uploaded Intel’s copy of the QEMU source that has NVMe support (since the NVMe support patch came from Intel). This version of QEMU
is not proprietary and only implements NVMe per spec. I’ve added a new directory in the root directory named qemu/… and it contains:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">qemu_5_March_2013.tgz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">README<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Please let me know if you have any questions. I will keep the distribution list informed when the official patch is pushed to the QEMU master repo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><img width="54" height="39" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE2F88.11D45970" alt="cid:image001.png@01CB3870.4BB88E70"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">NVM Solutions Group | Internal SSD Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Technology & Manufacturing Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Intel Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Desk: 480.554.2600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Mobile: 480.399.0645</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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