Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:11:43 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "FreeBSD Release Engineers" <re@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>, rnoland@freebsd.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Subject: Re: Request to include VMware X11 drivers on the installation media Message-ID: <201009281811.o8SIBhtG046450@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 %2B0300." <4CA223FA.3010708@freebsd.org>
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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. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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