Request to include VMware X11 drivers on the installation media
Dmitry Torokhov
dtor at vmware.com
Tue Sep 28 18:15:11 UTC 2010
On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:11:43 am Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi,
> I just added "FreeBSD Release Engineers" <re at freebsd.org>
> as vmware might not be aware of that address.
>
> ---------
>
> Reference:
> > From: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 +0300
> > Message-id: <4CA223FA.3010708 at freebsd.org>
>
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 28/09/2010 19:45 Dmitry Torokhov said the following:
> > > [ As was recommended by Joel Dahl I am resending this request to the
> > > ports
> > >
> > > list as I haven't got response from freebsd-x11 maintainers. ]
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We (VMware) would like to stop shipping our mouse and graphics drivers
> > > for newer releases of X server as part of our VMware Tools distribution
> > > and instead rely on versions of said drivers shipping with guest OSes.
> > >
> > > Currently both xf86-input-vmmouse and xf86-video-vmware are part of the
> > > ports tree but it would be helpful for the users if they were also
> > > available on the installation media. Could you please tell me what is
> > > needed to move the drivers in question there?
> >
> > Things like that are decided by FreeBSD Release Engineering team.
> > I think that such a notice/request should be sent to them directly.
>
Thank you Julian and Andriy, I indeed was not aware of the proper
address.
--
Dmitry
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