[nvmewin] Win7 x86 NVMe compiled driver is old version

[Per Hansson]

Hi, with a fresh Win7 SP1 install and driver chosen during installation 
it shows up as 1.3.0.0 in device manager.
See screenshot: http://img.techpowerup.org/150914/Win7x86-NVMe_1-4-0.png

Sincerely - Per Hansson

On 2015-09-10 03:00, Robles, Raymond C wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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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