Re: HAL and *BSD
Hi, On 05/06/13 02:08, Michael Biebl wrote: Afaics, there are basically 3 options: 1/ We drop hal and Xorg is ported to something like devd on *BSD 2/ We drop hal and hal support is simply disabled on non-Linux, which means, Xorg needs to be configured manually? Maybe Julien or KiBi can provide more info on this. 3/ we keep hal, but only for the non-Linux architectures and I'd need someone (from the kfreebsd porters team) to take over maintenance. I don't see that FreeBSD upstream has a replacement yet so are still using HAL in their latest releases and development head. There was no mention of Hurd here; how would it be affected by this? I guess it is a long way from having something to replace the functionality of HAL? I'm aware it's not a release arch but to me it would tip in favour of keeping hal around for a little longer, only for non-linux arches (and potentially other ports). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b65146.9030...@pyro.eu.org
Re: HAL and *BSD
Steven Chamberlain, le Mon 10 Jun 2013 23:20:54 +0100, a écrit : On 05/06/13 02:08, Michael Biebl wrote: Afaics, there are basically 3 options: 1/ We drop hal and Xorg is ported to something like devd on *BSD 2/ We drop hal and hal support is simply disabled on non-Linux, which means, Xorg needs to be configured manually? Maybe Julien or KiBi can provide more info on this. 3/ we keep hal, but only for the non-Linux architectures and I'd need someone (from the kfreebsd porters team) to take over maintenance. I don't see that FreeBSD upstream has a replacement yet so are still using HAL in their latest releases and development head. There was no mention of Hurd here; how would it be affected by this? Just the same I guess. I guess it is a long way from having something to replace the functionality of HAL? Yes. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130610222511.gd5...@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr
Re: HAL and *BSD
If you want to contact X maintainers, please use the maintainer address, which is the debian-x@ list… Quoting the full mail below accordingly. KiBi. Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (05/06/2013): Hi BSD porters, as you may know, hal hasn't seen any upstream development for years and is dead. For that matter I've filed bug reports some time ago [1]. The only real blocker atm that I can see is Xorg using hal on kfreebsd. There has been some discussion about this topic over two years ago [2], to get Xorg ported to devd on *BSD but I don't know what the current state of that effort is. Afaics, there are basically 3 options: 1/ We drop hal and Xorg is ported to something like devd on *BSD 2/ We drop hal and hal support is simply disabled on non-Linux, which means, Xorg needs to be configured manually? Maybe Julien or KiBi can provide more info on this. 3/ we keep hal, but only for the non-Linux architectures and I'd need someone (from the kfreebsd porters team) to take over maintenance. While I personally would prefer 1/, I don't know if there has been progress on this, so I'd like some input from the kfreebsd porters on this matter and what their preference is. Cheers, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=halectomy;users=pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2011-February/010474.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
