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This repository tracks patches needed to build VMware (Player and
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Workstation) host modules against recent kernels. As it focuses on recent
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kernels (older ones do not need patching), only vmmon and vmnet modules are
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currently handled as the rest has been upstreamed for some time.
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Main branch master handles only "infrastructure" files which do not belong
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to VMware module sources. Two other branches, "player" and "workstation"
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track upstream module sources distributed with Player and Workstation,
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respectively. Tags of the form "p${version}" (e.g. "p12.5.5") and
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"w${version}" correspond to clean unpacked sources of modules from
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a particular version of Player or Workstation.
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From these tags, branches "player-${version}" and "workstation-${version}"
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are forked. These branches track changes needed to build these modules
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against recent kernel versions. Tag "p${ver}-k${kver}" marks the set of
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changes needed to build modules from Player ${ver} against kernel ${kver},
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e.g. p12.5.5-k4.11 is for Player 12.5.5 and kernel 4.11; similar naming
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scheme "w${ver}-k${kver}" is used for Workstation modules. In general,
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later points in the branch should also work with older kernels (e.g.
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p12.5.5-k4.11 with kernel 4.10) but it's not guaranteed; it may happen that
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a fix for new kernel version may be too complicated to make also work with
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older versions.
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At the moment, changes are tested to build against all (vanilla) kernel
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releases starting with 4.9.
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This repository is provided "as is" with no guarantees. Use the contents on
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your own risk.
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