* Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> [2009-07-20 09:00:25]: > > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce, that after many months of discussions, Microsoft > has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers under the GPLv2. Following > this message, will be the patches that add the drivers to the > drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of cleanups. > > It's taken a long road to get here, and I'd like to thank the following > people who made this possible: > - Steve Hemminger for the initial prodding and extreme patience > - Hank Janssen for providing the code and working with me to get it > into a workable and semi-mergable state. His involvement within > Microsoft was also invaluable. > - Sam Ramji for his push within Microsoft to make this happen in a > manner that works with the Linux community. > - Novell for sponsoring my work on the Linux Driver project, without > which, this would not have even been possible. > And there are many others both within Novell and Microsoft, who I do not > want to slight by not naming, but the list would be too long to go into. > > These drivers are to enable Linux to work better when running as a guest > on top of the Hyper-V system. There is still a lot of work to do in > getting this into "proper" mergable state, and moving it out of the > staging directory, but Hank and I will be undertaking this task. See > the TODO file in the drivers/staging/hv/ directory if anyone wishes to > help out with this task. > What is the long term strategy to keep the sources in sync? Is there one? Do you expect to get updates for these sources? -- Balbir _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
