On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and Kevin Stange at 12/05/09 18:23 did gyre and gimble: >>> So you're saying this HAL method is widely (or narrowly, but by the >>> right people) disliked? Using Gentoo it seems to be encouraged, and >>> I've seen indications other distros (like Ubuntu) have picked up the >>> technique as well. >> >> HAL will eventually be phased out in favour of getting more direct >> information from udev. I'm not sure how that will impact the Xorg side >> of things but i'd imagine the end solution will be in some way related >> to udev. (this is just a guess tho) > > And for non-Linux systems? HAL is OS-agnostic, udev seems very Linux > specific.
Well, there's DeviceKit, but I don't think anyone has any plans for DeviceKit-input or DeviceKit-graphics. I'd personally like to see an abstraction layer rather than putting one into Xorg. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
