We went down that road for a bit in previous years (CM2007+MDT), and it works fine maybe 90% of the time, but we eventually ran into issues with display drivers specifically, even on models that shared the same video card family.
At the moment we are on separate driver packages for each model, and just eating it on the space utilization on standalone media. We are about to upgrade to ENGL Driver Manager v4 which we are expecting to be able to leverage for some "deduping" of drivers by way of shared/consolidated driver packages but not 100% sure it will work out as well as we hope. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Miriyala, Vasu <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.**** > > ** ** > >
