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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:24:17 +0100
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
> Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new
> driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work,

I'm no VMWare fan and their policy for releasing documentation used to
be beyond idiotic, but please lets stop spreading this nonsense about
NDAs?

From: http://www.vmware.com/resources/opensource/projects.html

"The video driver was one of the first pieces of software ever
released as open source by VMware - back in 2002"

And video is quite damned fast if you disable acceleration, certainly
much better than vesa on most modern video cards.

As for drawterm, can we kill it already? 9vx and Inferno are much
better alternatives..

uriel