Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:15:06 -0700 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineers <re@freebsd.org>, "rnoland@freebsd.org" <rnoland@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request to include VMware X11 drivers on the installation media Message-ID: <201009281115.08373.dtor@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <201009281811.o8SIBhtG046450@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201009281811.o8SIBhtG046450@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:11:43 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > I just added "FreeBSD Release Engineers" <re@freebsd.org> > as vmware might not be aware of that address. > > --------- > > Reference: > > From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 +0300 > > Message-id: <4CA223FA.3010708@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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