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diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..360fdd40ea3a --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +NOTES +=============================================================================== +I may not be able to update this aur package as quickly as some folks would +like. I have disowned the package before, but nobody else stepped up to +maintain it. Since I have to force the dkms modules into submission every so +often anyway, I might as well continue to update this package whenever I am +able, or until a new maintainer takes over. ~MK + +These patches are currently only compatible with the dkms module sources that +come with VMware Workstation/Player 12.5, as far as I'm aware. ~MK + +A fair amount of the patches, I adapt from here: +https://github.com/gentoo/vmware/tree/master/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files +It's not always a one-to-one copy, as our patches seem to go back further than +these, and, at the time of this writing, these patches are not updated for +VMware Workstation/Player 12.5. There are also various other differences. ~MK + +I cannot test how the changes I make affect every version of the Linux kernel, +so things might break if you're using an older version. Let me know if this +happens and I'll see what I can do. ~MK + +Some of the changes made in commit 39dbbade236e336560e3db67cd6864bbf400da34 may +need some review. In particular, the changes to the patching of +vmci/linux/driver.c. This may also require a review of the change to +vmci/shared/vmci_kernel_if.h. ~MK + +The version number we're using for the package (currently 308) comes from the +VMMON_VERSION define in vmmon/include/iocontrols.h. This only seems to change +with bumps to the major version number of VMware Workstation/Player, while the +actual dkms module sources change more often. I would like to find something +more reliable to base our version number on. In doing so, we might open up the +possibility to make this package compatible with multiple versions of the dkms +modules. ~MK + +I have my text editor set to trim trailing whitespace, and to ensure that files +always end with a newline. Because of this, some superfluous patch chunks will +likely make their way into the patches from time to time. Getting rid of these +isn't the highest priority, but as I have time, I will try to neaten up the +patch files. ~MK + +I considered adding the VMware Player 12.5 bundle to sources in PKGBUILD, so +that we have a guaranteed fresh copy of the dkms module sources, but I have +decided against it for the time-being. Feedback on this would be appreciated. +~MK + +I would like to see about making an open-vm-tools package that is compatible +with this one, as it would seem that there are many components in +open-vm-tools, and only a small subset actually conflict. ~MK + +Currently, vsock doesn't work. It compiles fine, but it spits out symbol +version disagreements when you try to load it. ~MK |