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Date:      Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:17:35 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com>
Cc:        Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DeviceKit
Message-ID:  <1244600255.19104.214.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <f0dd9eb90906091801q704354a2w553f8996c4bc7874@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:01 +1200, James Butler wrote:
> 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 exactl=
y
> >> happens on linux.
> >
> > I had an idea to port DK to FreeBSD as a wrapper around HAL.  The reaso=
n
> > 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.  Libhal also provides a goo=
d
> > API for performing many of the operations required by DK.
>=20
> With DeviceKit's stated intention of replacing HAL, that would make
> HAL a FreeBSD-only backend for DeviceKit. So much for abstraction :-)

Yes.  Technically udev is a Linux-only backend.  I'm open to other
suggestions.  Certainly, if you want to do the port, I'm happy with
anything that works provided it can support the various DK consumers.

Joe

>=20
> -James
>=20
> >
> > However, I haven't started any work on this.  Yes, getting DK on FreeBS=
D
> > is a priority, especially for GNOME 3.0.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > --
> > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
> >
>=20
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