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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:01:22 +1200
From:      James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DeviceKit
Message-ID:  <f0dd9eb90906091801q704354a2w553f8996c4bc7874@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1244594918.19104.212.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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2009/6/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 01:52 +0200, Koop Mast wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:33 +1200, James Butler wrote:
>> > Hi -gnome,
>> >
>> > A couple of weeks ago I was looking for info on DeviceKit on FreeBSD,
>> > when I found the "State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project" thread from
>> > earlier in the year, which mentions DeviceKit as a priority for
>> > porting. Has anyone stepped up to do this so far?
>> >
>> > -James Butler
>>
>> I got something in the works. At the moment I'm working on what exactly
>> happens on linux.
>
> I had an idea to port DK to FreeBSD as a wrapper around HAL. =C2=A0The re=
ason
> for this is that FreeBSD doesn't have udev (or sysfs), and a lot of
> effort went in to abstracted the various hardware properties in hal, so
> those methods should probably be leveraged. =C2=A0Libhal also provides a =
good
> API for performing many of the operations required by DK.

With DeviceKit's stated intention of replacing HAL, that would make
HAL a FreeBSD-only backend for DeviceKit. So much for abstraction :-)

-James

>
> However, I haven't started any work on this. =C2=A0Yes, getting DK on Fre=
eBSD
> is a priority, especially for GNOME 3.0.
>
> Joe
>
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