Help in porting HAL do FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Adriano Del Vigna wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I'm writing to tell that I'm interested in helping to port HAL to
> FreeBSD. I have some background in C/C++ programming, but no
> background in kernel level stuff.
> 
> Looking at HAL source code, it seems to have little dependency on
> kernel level resources, just some ioctl calls, and some exclusive
> Linux kernel structures, as far as I can see.
> 
> I believe that this task will be a great start point to learn more
> about FreeBSD and GNOME.
> 
> Are there any plans? Right now I'm trying only to build HAL (version
> 0.5.5) in my FreeBSD box.

I have [finally] started coding HAL for FreeBSD.  I have code written by
another FreeBSD user that I am extending.  I hope to have something
working by February.  Once I have a little more done, I will put it in
my CVS repo, and then others can help.

My main areas of focus right now:

USB umass plug'n'play
devinfo coldplug support
ACPI events
ATA harddrive events

I'm probably not going to be able to flesh all of these out in a
reasonable amount of time, so I will need help once I get a little more
code written.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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