Resending for help From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miriyala, Vasu Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] Driver Packages Consolidation
Hello, We are thinking in these lines to reduce the drivers/packages, thus the total Image size on servers or ISO/USB etc. Appreciate to share your comments/feedback on these lines Reducing the # of driver packages (or drivers ) as much as possible to make the content lighter on servers, USB etc. mediums and also to reduce the conflict of drivers, if any. This might save Gigs on Images, though careful consideration and testing needed a. Lenovo's latest driver of certain hardware works fine on older laptop models also, provided its same hardware, meaning if T530 has latest driver for "Intel(R) HD Graphics" , same graphics card is also part of T430, T500 laptops but currently used with its lowers versions, then latest driver should be suffice to handle driver needs of all models wherever this card is present. This reduces both the # of packages/drivers to pass on benefits to us b. Here is small illustration of drivers info of "Intel(R) HD Graphics" which spans two packages T 530 Package T410-T510 Packages Intel(R) HD Graphics Class: Display Ver: 8.15.10.2778 > RelDate: 6/6/2012 > Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics Class: Display Ver:8.15.10.2622 RelDat: 1/10/2012 PS: In short suggestion is to switch from current strategy of "A driver package for each model like T530, T420 etc" to "A package for hardware components like Display or Vendor like Intel sort of" where latest versions of drivers are kept and old ones to removed. This helps to achieve less/nil chances of duplicate drivers hence reduced size of drivers in the OSD This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.
