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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hello, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">I am pleased to announce the 1.5 release of the open source OFA NVMe Windows driver. This release is the result of excellent collaboration and contribution within the NVMe and OFA communities.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">The following major features have been added to this release:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Namespace Management (Create, Delete, Attach, Detach)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">EOL Read Only Support<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Win 8.1 Timers<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Surprise Removal Support in IOCTL Path<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Disk Initialization Performance Optimization<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Storage Request Block Support<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">StorPort Performance Options<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">StorPort DPC Redirection<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Misc. Bug Fixes<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Security Send/Receive with Zero Data Length<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">SNTI updates for SCSI to NVMe Translation<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">With the above feature and bug fix additions, the OFA reference driver now contains:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Performance improvement & robustness<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">NVMe Spec rev 1.2 feature compliance<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Support for MSFT Windows 10, 8.1, 7, Server 2012 R2, 2012 and 2008 R2<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Support for both 32 & 64-bit<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Please refer to the readme.txt file for details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">The 1.5 release package may be downloaded from -
<a href="https://svn.openfabrics.org/svnrepo/nvmewin/releases/revision_1.5"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://svn.openfabrics.org/svnrepo/nvmewin/releases/revision_1.5</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thanks to HGST, Samsung, PMC-Sierra , Google, Intel, Ulink and all others who contributed to the successful 1.5 release.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thanks…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">NSG ISE Host Storage Software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Intel Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office: 480-554-2600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mobile: 480-399-0645<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A"><img border="0" width="91" height="36" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D25210.04596ED0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CB9B29.EA8D14F0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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