On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 20:42 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 12:30 -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello Victor, hello Richard, hello devkitters, > > > > > > in the past half year we have come quite far with the "halsectomy", > > > i.e. deprecating hal [1]. The main two remaining items are now X.org > > > input devices (where a patch is already being discussed), and the > > > suspend quirks in pm-utils. > > > > > > I would like to push this forward a little. From what I can see, the > > > are two sensible options: > > > > > > (1) Convert the hal-info suspend quirks to a simple text format and > > > put it into/maintain it directly in pm-utils. > > > > > > → nice encapsulation, maintained at the place where they are > > > actually needed > > > > I did this as an experiment last year, and it worked out well at the > > time. I will see if I still have that branch around somewhere to make > > available for comment. > > Attached is the code I posted to the hal mailing list last November to > migrate the video quirk database out of HAL and into something a little > easier for bash to deal with. It did not have the full expressive power > of the hal-info XML format, but that was mostly not needed anyways -- > the only place it was used was the 21-nvidia quirk for handling g80 > chipsets with the nv driver, but that can just as easily be hacked into > a few lines of bash.
And now, a version that actaully works. With a bit of glue code, this can replace auto quirk and smart kernel driver handling in pm-utils. Yes, I know that I am insane for parsing XML in bash. In my defense, I only do it when I have to. The sooner we no longer rely on .fdi files, the better. Comments, flames (except XML-related ones and ones implying we no longer have to worry about quirks), etc. welcome. > Hacking this into a pm-utils hook would not be that tricky -- the flow > would go something like this: > > if has_kms || has_nvidia || has_fglrx || has_smart_intel; then > skip_all_quirks > elif has_nvidia_g80; then > do_g80_magic > else > use_video_quirks > fi > > video_quirks definitly has bugs, but it did OK as a proof of concept for > me. _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
