On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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.
You don't consider HAL an reasonable abstraction layer? robert. > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg -- Robert Noland <[email protected]> 2Hip Networks
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