Hi Alex, thanks for tips, I think I will concentrate on the libdevattr stuff, even it seems to be a bigger size problem. I will look at the problem more deeply.
Robert. V Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:50:13 +0000 Alex Hornung <ahorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 21/03/12 00:18, Robert David wrote: > > I'm new to DragonFly, but I like the ideas you provide for > > enhancements. There seems to be many tasks I'm interested, but I > > dont know I can handle a lot of them, because I dont know > > DragonFlyBSD (*BSD) kernel so much just now. > > if you want to learn about DragonFly, I suggest you just grab an ISO, > install it (a VM will do) and just browse around. If you are really > keen you could submit a patch or two for some of the bugs on the > bugtracker. > > > > As there are more ideas to improve in your list, maybe you as a > > developers has some priority list what is more and what less > > important. > > It is not so much about what we feel is important, but about your > proposal. If your proposal is great, you got good chances to get a > slot even for a project someone might consider less relevant. > > > > From the things that seems reasonable for me and my experiences are: > > - Improve compatibility of libdevattr with Linux' libudev > > I'd certainly welcome that - but beware that there's more work to be > done here than might appear at a first glance. In particular regarding > sysfs - I'm not sure how much software benefits from libudev without > explicit use of sysfs. If most also use sysfs, this project might > evolve rapidly into a partial sysfs implementation (maybe even as a > userland fs using puffs/fuse and an expanded libdevattr?) > > > > - Port FreeBSD's USB stack to DragonFly > > While a lot of us feel that it would be great to have FreeBSD's USB > stack, I'm not quite convinced it's a good gsoc project. > > > > - Adapt pkgsrc to create a package system with dependency > > independence. > > A proper package system for pkgsrc would certainly be great. If you > are interested in this, I suggest you discuss this further on the > mailing lists and dive into how pkgsrc works by simply using > DragonFly for a while. > > > HTH, > Alex
