NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms

103•zdw•2mo ago

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jdboyd•2mo ago

I wonder how much further back he can take it. NT4 and NT3.51 would be really cool to see supported.

Nexxxeh•2mo ago

Omores did a video on it with NT 4.0, and the description says it does also work with NT 3.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvT9-ZfW1Iw

spijdar•2mo ago

Wow, imagine seeing this just after booting up my PWS running NT (and RH Linux...). NT 4, but one day I do want to try 2k.

My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

In the meantime, I'll just add the desire to do this to the other Alpha-related intrusive thoughts I have, like getting that port of OpenSolaris/Illumos to Alpha to run...

dgl•2mo ago

> My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

PCI to PCIe adapter and then PCIe to M.2: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78987 (PCIe has some level of backwards compatibility, although like that thread shows there are some limits as to what will work).

buildbot•2mo ago

This does work on a compaq DS10. You can't boot directly from it but linux will see the nvme disk right away from a livecd.

Nexxxeh•2mo ago

For those of us who like seeing old OSs running on old bare metal to a daft extent, a YouTuber "Omores" is worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/@O_mores

He has videos on this driver running on NT and 2000.

nubinetwork•2mo ago

I thought this github repo looked familiar :)

irusensei•2mo ago

Looking at that person's repo you'll also find NVME drivers for SGI Irix.

https://github.com/techomancer/irixnvme

jve•2mo ago

Is this "just because" fun project or made out of a need?

Disclaimer mentions:

No warranty provided

Use at your own risk

I guess the same can be said about the OS itself :)

eimrine•2mo ago

Are there any software project having any warranties?

londons_explore•2mo ago

Assuming performance doesn't matter too much, isn't it easier to run all of windows NT/2k/XP as a UEFI application, using UEFI for all storage access?

A basic driver to link the NT disk device interface to the UEFI interface shouldn't be too hard I assume.

toast0•2mo ago

UEFI is a weird environment. I'm not sure you can take an off the shelf OS and turn it into a UEFI application, because of things that are missing or restricted versus running standalone. But once you exit UEFI bootservices, you lose most of what UEFI provides, like storage access.

Easier would probably be running something like a single guest hypervisor that would essentially translate the storage (and NICs) into an interface the OS understood.

bilegeek•2mo ago

Windows XP only supports UEFI because of some excellent hacks[1]. Haven't seen anything for NT or 2k beyond some preliminary testing[2].

[1]https://msfn.org/board/topic/186793-csmwrap-boot-csm-on-uefi...

[2]https://msfn.org/board/topic/183745-is-it-possible-to-boot-w...

LargoLasskhyfv•2mo ago

Now combine that with https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs (WinBtrfs) for extra fun !1!!

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