Re: [Xen-devel] Is anyone working on HVM Paravirt drivers for windows?

[Michael Paesold <mpaesold@xxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:14:52PM +0100, Michael Paesold wrote:
> > Andrew D. Ball wrote:
> > > That would be sad, but is possible.  Just like I don't believe Linux
> > > drivers should be allowed to be non-GPL, not allowing drivers for
> > > Windows to be GPL makes sense, unless the kernel is organized with much
> > > more isolation as more of a microkernel.
> > >
> > > Anyone's more informed thoughts on this would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Peace.
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:46 -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > I may be wrong here; but I think windows drivers cannot be open-sourced. 
> > > > I recall reading that in windows DDK documentation.
> > I don't believe the problem is with Windows drivers, but with the Windows 
> > Driver Development Kit. The DDK has a license incompatible with the GPL. I 
> > think writing a driver without the kit would still be possible, although 
> > difficult because it would require much more knowledge about the Windows 
> > kernel.
> Just do a chinese wall, clean room implementation then. One person has the
> DDK and writes a spec for the driver. The second writes the actual driver
> based on the spec - never looking at the DDK directly. A little more work
> sure, but certainly doable.
Yes, of course. Just find two guys to do the work. ;-)

Best Regards
Michael Paesold

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