cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.options.mk ports/x11-servers/xorg-server Makefile

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2012-07-14 09:07, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:23:57AM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> bapt        2012-07-13 10:23:57 UTC
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     Mk                   bsd.options.mk 
>>     x11-servers/xorg-server Makefile 
>>   Log:
>>   Add new OPTIONS_EXCLUSE_${ARCH} to be able to exclude an option on the
>>   given arch.  Fix xorg-server on sparc64 by excluing the HAL option on
>>   sparc64 has it used to be before convertion to new options framework [1]
> 
> I thought HAL was deprecated anyways, why not simply disable it by default
> across the gang?  I've never enabled it and X server always runs fine.
> 
> You also seem to have a typo in OPTIONS_EXCLUSE_ (and commit log itself).
> 
> ./danfe
> 


The issue with HAL is that, while it is deprecated in the Linux
community, we in the FreeBSD project does not have a replacement for
HAL, wrt automatic mounting of usb drives (which can probably be solved
using devd) and device recognition and addition in xorg (which is harder
to solve).  A lot of people expect to ust be able to run "startx" and
have it recognize a mouse, keyboard etc.  With that said, it is quite
possible, and very simple to run x without hal.  But then you need a
xorg.conf, and you won't get automatic recognition of devices
(keyboards, mice) that are plugged in after you've started x, regardless
of whether they are in xorg.conf or not.
Regards!
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