Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, rnoland@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request to include VMware X11 drivers on the installation media Message-ID: <4CA223FA.3010708@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009280945.11789.dtor@vmware.com> References: <201009280945.11789.dtor@vmware.com>
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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
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