Re: HAL and *BSD
Steven Chamberlain, le Mon 10 Jun 2013 23:20:54 +0100, a écrit :
> On 05/06/13 02:08, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Afaics, there are basically 3 options:
> >
> > 1/ We drop hal and Xorg is ported to something like devd on *BSD
> >
> > 2/ We drop hal and hal support is simply disabled on non-Linux, which
> > means, Xorg needs to be configured manually? Maybe Julien or KiBi can
> > provide more info on this.
> >
> > 3/ we keep hal, but only for the non-Linux architectures and I'd need
> > someone (from the kfreebsd porters team) to take over maintenance.
>
> I don't see that FreeBSD upstream has a replacement yet so are still
> using HAL in their latest releases and development head.
>
> There was no mention of Hurd here; how would it be affected by this?
Just the same I guess.
> I guess it is a long way from having something to replace the
> functionality of HAL?
Yes.
Samuel
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