Open Fabrics Alliance NVM Express Window Driver 1.3 Released April 25, 2014

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By Kwok Kong, PMC-Sierra

I am pleased to announce the 1.3 release of the open source Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA) NVM Express Windows driver. This release is a result of an excellent collaboration between the NVM Express communities.

The following major features have been added to this release:

  • Hibernation
  • NUMA group support
  • CPU-MSI vector and queue map learning enhancement
  • Logical CPU core enumeration enhancement
  • 32-bit driver support for Windows 7 and 8 • Reset handling enhancement
  • SRB extension support
  • Several bug fixes

Release 1.3 is now behind us and we plan to make the next 1.4 release in late 2014. The focus for 1.4 release is stability and passing the Windows Hardware Certification Kit (HCK) in order to be digitally-signed by WHQL.

The 1.3 release package may be downloaded from https://www.openfabrics.org/index.php/developer-tools/nvme-windows-development.html.

You can participate in the development of the OFA NVM Express Windows driver by joining the mailing list nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org. To subscribe to the OFA NVM Express Windows driver mailing list, please visit http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/nvmewin.

Thanks to Intel, LSI, SanDisk, Huawei, Samsung, PMC-Sierra and others who contribute to the successful 1.3 release. Looking forward to working with you all again on the 1.4 release.