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> References: <f0dd9eb90906091533h9d54890vde8ec4d6c48b7b29@mail.gmail.com> <1244591557.5905.29.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> <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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >
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