From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 18:57:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E7C16A420 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF16C43D5E for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:56:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k05Iuw401778; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:56:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from [64.102.192.190] (dhcp-64-102-192-190.cisco.com [64.102.192.190]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k05Iuwf03268; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:56:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43BD6C00.5050501@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:57:04 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adriano Del Vigna References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help in porting HAL do FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:57:01 -0000 -----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-----