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diff --git a/vmware.mdwn b/vmware.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eb82a3e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/vmware.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + + +# Drivers for VMware virtual graphics + + +## Drivers + +The Xorg graphics driver for the VMware virtual graphics- and mouse devices consist of + +* xf86-video-vmware - The video driver. Driver binary is vmware_drv.so. The version 12.0 contains support for accelerated OpenGL. +* xf86-input-vmmouse - The mouse driver. Driver binaries are vmmouse_drv.so and vmmouse_detect +* The kernel video driver - vmwgfx. This currently resides in kernel 3.2.0 and higher. + +### 3D support + +Don't miss [[our 3D page|vmware/vmware3D]]! + + +## Maintainer + +VMware currently maintain these drivers. The maintainer email is <linux-graphics-maintainer-at-vmware-dot-com>. Patches touching the driver should have an Acked-by: or Signed-off-by: from a maintainer, and new releases are cut by a maintainer only. Please send patches and release requests to the xorg-devel mailing list with a CC to the maintainer email. + + +## License + +MIT-style. + + +## News + +* 2012-02-10 Zack Rusin has pushed a patch to mesa master which makes accelerated OpenVG run on vmwgfx EGL, in addition to the OpenGL and OpenGL-ES APIs (OpenVG requires the egl_gallium EGL driver, not the egl_dri2 EGL driver). This patch will be cherry-picked for mesa 8.0, but OpenVG and OpenGL-ES on vmwgfx is still experimental and not officialy supported. +* 2012-02-10 The kernel driver version 2.4.0 now contains support for fake page-flipping. This is to enable support for the Wayland demo compositor to run on vmwgfx EGL on the drm platform. I'ts called "fake" because currently it's implemented as a blit operation, and we don't yet support sync-to-vblank. The fake page-flipping support will probably enter linux 3.4.0, but anyone eager to try out can use the standalone vmwgfx kernel driver. +* 2012-02-07 Our enhanced drivers with [[RandR12|RandR12]]+ and 3D support are now enabled by default in ubuntu 12.04 daily build isos. +* 2012-01-24 VMware Workstation 8.0.2 and VMware Player 4.0.2 have been released. These releases contain correctness- and performance fixes for Linux 3D. +* 2012-01-13 An alpha version of a 3D / KMS [[/RandR12|vmware/RandR12]] - capable xf86-video-vmware is due to be released in the next few days Refer to our [[3D|vmware/vmware3D]] page for additional information. +* 2012-01-11 xf86-video-vmware 11.1.0 was released. This is a stable release.
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