From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 10 02:17:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226941065670; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1EB8FC16; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5A2IFCS020896; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:18:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: James Butler In-Reply-To: References: <1244591557.5905.29.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> <1244594918.19104.212.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PNYNiiDUKCHKq+5CdiZB" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:17:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1244600255.19104.214.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: Koop Mast , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DeviceKit 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: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:17:28 -0000 --=-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 : > > 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--