Thanks for all the answers :) ...and sposibo to Vadim and Amit for all the great work!
For Vadim: if I understand well about the hal dilemma, hotplugd would at least mount USB devices, so things like phonon would be out and audio/video be controlled as usual by OpenBSD standard facilities? Which one would be the level of integration with native apps like kmix? Would recent intel-based video chipsets work accelerated (i.e. composting) or not? When 5.0 comes out, I could gladly test it on sparc64, even though the best sparc64 machine I have with a graphic card is a Blade 150 with 1GB ram. Would it be enough? It's an UltraSPARC IIi 650MHz, would it take ages to compile or what? Right now the lowest platform I had KDE4 running is a Pentium3-M 1.133MHz under debian, but that one just sports canned-out packages, never compiled a row. Maybe I could borrow a V240 dual 1,5MHz 8GB ram from a friend, but dunno which graphic card would fit there without hassles (I've read a recent post on sparc@ about the "would be" video-card compatibility list for OpenBSD which turned out to be too "optimistic" when effectively tried out...). Thanks Paolo On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there some forecast (even rough like, say, 6mth, 2yrs, etc.) about > future > > availability? > > Btw, since 4.6 kde abandoned hal, how does this fit with OpenBSD? > > Thanks > > > We can get it in the main tree when there are testers who are willing > to devote their time and give feedback. > > On October 10th Vadim posted a patch to ports@ on which can be tested > on other architectures: sparc/sparc64/loongson etc.. wherever KDE > claims to have support. KDE might support only a few, we don't know. > We need to find out which arches work in our tree for KDE 4.7.2. > > Remi Pointel worked on this initially, now Vadim is working on KDE > 4.7.2 and if we get testers we will be hopefully be able to get this > effort in. Without testers and feedback nothing goes in the main > tree!!! > > Like Vadim said, please start testing next week, when he can get some > time to polish up some stuff. If you need help look at the porting > FAQ, man ports, man bsd.port.mk > > thanks in advance
