[nvmewin] Win7 x86 NVMe compiled driver is old version

[Robles, Raymond C]

Hi Per,

I had to go back and check with the one of the companies who managed the releases. It appears it was an oversight in the .inf file. However, the Visual Studio project/solution has been modified such that the compiled driver will override the .inf and display 1.4.0.0 in the OS. 

Were you able to verify that if the driver if this driver is installed, the revision shows as 1.4.0.0? If not, and you see 1.3.0.0 or any other version in the OS, please let me know.

Thanks,
Ray 

-----Original Message-----
From: Per Hansson [mailto:per at techspot.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 4:46 AM
To: Robles, Raymond C; Robles, Raymond C
Cc: 'Mike Berhan'; nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [nvmewin] Win7 x86 NVMe compiled driver is old version

Hi, I did not know that Win7 lacks native TRIM support, thanks for the info.
Question remains though why there is a compiled v1.3.0 version of the driver in the 32-bit folder of Win7 in the revision 1.4 release tree? 
(It's 1.4.0 for 64-bit Win7)

See version string here:
https://svn.openfabrics.org/svnrepo/nvmewin/releases/revision_1.4/installations/32-bit/Windows7/nvme.inf

Sincerely - Per Hansson, editor @ Techspot.com

On 2015-09-03 01:03, Robles, Raymond C wrote:
> Mike is correct. Win 7 does not support TRIM natively. Any IHV wanting 
> to support TRIM on Win 7 would have to implement a method (i.e. filter
> driver) to handle sending TRIM requests. Win 8 and later natively 
> supports TRIM.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> [mailto:nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Mike 
> Berhan
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 3:36 PM
> To: 'Per Hansson'; nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [nvmewin] Win7 x86 NVMe compiled driver is old version
> 
> In the Windows 7 storage stack, there is no UNMAP CDB sent down from 
> the class driver.  That's only in Windows 8 and above.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> [mailto:nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Per 
> Hansson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:35 PM
> To: nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org; nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [nvmewin] Win7 x86 NVMe compiled driver is old version
> 
> Hi, the version of the compiled NVMe driver for Win7 x86 is actually
> v1.3.0 and not v1.4.0.
> It for example seems to lack TRIM support.
> 
> https://svn.openfabrics.org/svnrepo/nvmewin/releases/revision_1.4/inst
> allati
> ons/32-bit/Windows7/
> 
> Sincerely - Per Hansson
> 
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