[openbeos] Re: Haiku VMware video driver in BeOS 5 PE?

> On 1/23/07, Paulo Estrela <paulojbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I'm using vmware 5.5.1 with beos 5 pe (5.0.1 netserver). CardID is 
> > 405. I
> > simply copied vmware.accelerant from the latest Haiku hd image to
> > /BeOS5PE/beos/system/add-ons/accelerants/ and vmware to
> > /BeOS5PE/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/. On serial debug 
> > file no
> > clue about vmware. I will try to compile vmware driver for r5 
> > target as
> > suggested by François and Axel to see what happens.
> >
> > []'s
> >
> > Paulo Estrela
> >
> 
> On that topic, I went ahead and modified the jamfiles to create a jam
> package from this (for the factory) - built using TARGET_PLATFORM=r5.
> Hummin in #haiku tested it with his R5-in-VMWare environment and he 
> said it
> worked great!
> 
> Attached is the patch if someone wants to commit it.

Done.

> 
> Note: I think the package names are a bit odd... should we remove the 
> "-cvs"
> entirely? change them all to "-svn"? - put "r5" in the filename 
> somewhere?

Well -cvs means -current to most users. But yeah -svn is more logical.
The separate zip kind of implies R5, else it would likely be in an 
image anyway. For now.

François.

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