DeviceKit

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:01 +1200, James Butler wrote:
> 2009/6/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at 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 exactly
> >> happens on linux.
> >
> > I had an idea to port DK to FreeBSD as a wrapper around HAL.  The reason
> > 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 good
> > API for performing many of the operations required by DK.
> 
> 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

> 
> -James
> 
> >
> > However, I haven't started any work on this.  Yes, getting DK on FreeBSD
> > is a priority, especially for GNOME 3.0.
> >
> > Joe
> >
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