Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:57:04 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Adriano Del Vigna <adriano.delvigna@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help in porting HAL do FreeBSD Message-ID: <43BD6C00.5050501@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <ff0c330511290557h6aaaee1cx@mail.gmail.com> References: <ff0c330511290557h6aaaee1cx@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adriano Del Vigna wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm writing to tell that I'm interested in helping to port HAL to > FreeBSD. I have some background in C/C++ programming, but no > background in kernel level stuff. > > Looking at HAL source code, it seems to have little dependency on > kernel level resources, just some ioctl calls, and some exclusive > Linux kernel structures, as far as I can see. > > I believe that this task will be a great start point to learn more > about FreeBSD and GNOME. > > Are there any plans? Right now I'm trying only to build HAL (version > 0.5.5) in my FreeBSD box. I have [finally] started coding HAL for FreeBSD. I have code written by another FreeBSD user that I am extending. I hope to have something working by February. Once I have a little more done, I will put it in my CVS repo, and then others can help. My main areas of focus right now: USB umass plug'n'play devinfo coldplug support ACPI events ATA harddrive events I'm probably not going to be able to flesh all of these out in a reasonable amount of time, so I will need help once I get a little more code written. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDvWwAb2iPiv4Uz4cRArz4AJ9ySvfNQ/aw1MASEMYla61Aw4eipwCfWMIJ uG5wXHYq87f/XHsYPVvMhbM= =6dd9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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