Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:17:05 +1200 From: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DeviceKit Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90906100217m50352b89lb5b37c2f543e88d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1244600255.19104.214.camel@shumai.marcuscom.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> <1244600255.19104.214.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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2009/6/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>: > 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 FreeBS= D, >> >> > 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 exact= ly >> >> happens on linux. >> > >> > I had an idea to port DK to FreeBSD as a wrapper around HAL. =C2=A0The= 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, s= o >> > those methods should probably be leveraged. =C2=A0Libhal 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. =C2=A0Technically udev is a Linux-only backend. =C2=A0I'm open to ot= her > suggestions. =C2=A0Certainly, if you want to do the port, I'm happy with > anything that works provided it can support the various DK consumers. I have done a little investigation, but I'm glad Koop has looked at it first, as it would be a steep learning curve for me. Let me know if I can help test. >> > However, I haven't started any work on this. =C2=A0Yes, getting DK on = FreeBSD >> > is a priority, especially for GNOME 3.0. >> > I'm actually an Xfce user, but I guess Xfce will need to follow with DeviceKit if HAL becomes obsolete. -James
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