[nvmewin] Feb 13, 2013 NVMe OFA Windows Meeting Notes

[Kong, Kwok]

2013 releases:
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- There will be two releases in 2013
    - release 1.2 in June
    - release 1.3 in Dec
- Binary files will be released with the source file
    - Source tree maintainer will build the binary files on official releases (Intel currently)


Features and Contributors:
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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, will confirm)
- 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):
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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)