[nvmewin] NVMe Windows driver working group meeting note (4-11-13)

[Kong, Kwok]

NVMe OFA Windows Driver Meeting Note (April 11, 2013)

Release 1.2 Status
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- IDT and Intel have done testing with the following Windows version and the driver seems to be
  working without any problem. IDT will do more testing and on schedule to finish the testing 
  before June. NVMe 1.00e enhancement is expected to be completed in May.
	- Windows 8 64-bit support
	- Windows Server 2008R2 64-bit support
	- Windows Server 2012 64-bit
	
- LSI has confirmed that they have allocated resource to work on the TRIM command. The TRIM command 
  support is expected to be completed before end of May.
  
- Huawei has started the development on the Hibernation as a boot drive. Huawei should have no 
  problem to finish the deveopment before end of May
  

Release Roadmap for 2013
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- There is no change to the roadmap. 


Release 1.2 (June)

- Supports the following Windows versions in addition to Windows 7 - 64 bits (IDT)
    - Windows 8 64-bit
    - Windows Server 2008R2 64-bit
    - Windows Server 2012 64-bit
    
- TRIM command support 		(LSI)
- NVMe 1.00e enhancement 	(IDT)
- Hibernation as a boot drive	(Huawei)

Release 1.3 (Dec)

- Support additional Windows versions
    - Windows 7 32-bit
    - Windows 8 32-bit
    
- Windows 8 features:
    - Extended SRB format
    - SMART handling via new Extended SRB format
    
Features that will not be supported in 2013 (will be reviewed mid-year):

NVMe 1.1 support:
- multi-path
- SGL 
- Get/Set feature update
	- Autonomous power state transition
	- Host Identifier
	- Reservation Notification Mask
	- Reservation Persistence
- identify structure update 
- write zeros command

Other feature:
- End-to-end protection (Server 2012 support this)



Known problems that will be fixed 
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- Not Accessing NVMe registers in their native width. (Ray - Intel)
- ModeSense Translation issue. (Dharani - SanDisk)
- format nvm error. (Judy - Samsung)
- Not handling CSTS.RDY status (from 1->0 and 0->1) properly on NVMe reset. (Judy - Samsung)


SCSI Translation 
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- Yong Chen (Huawei) will represent this working group to work with Microsoft on the SCSI translation.
  He is going to report back to this working group and the NVMe WG if he sees any discrepncy
  in the NVMe SCSI translation recommendation and the Microsoft SCSI compliance testing.
  

Next Meeting
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- Next meeting will be in June. Kwok Kong of IDT will set up the meeting in May.