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> References: <f0dd9eb90906091533h9d54890vde8ec4d6c48b7b29@mail.gmail.com> <1244591557.5905.29.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> <1244594918.19104.212.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <f0dd9eb90906091801q704354a2w553f8996c4bc7874@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--=-PNYNiiDUKCHKq+5CdiZB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-PNYNiiDUKCHKq+5CdiZB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkovF70ACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4d74ACgncTbgHuWM5Cdrl2qyq9BQq48 Q8QAn1W1L5d14p6r9CXKeJi2/kA4sMu2 =Q7KH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PNYNiiDUKCHKq+5CdiZB--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1244600255.19104.214.camel>