Re: Status of HFS support on FreeBSD

2013-04-22 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello Sreenath; Thank you for your interest in the HFS+ port. Around 2004-2005 there was an initial port done but the developer behind it lost interest and no one picked it up. Apparently the Apple code was very clean and a lot stuff just worked. Since then the Apple driver has advanced a lot

Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

2012-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
...@gmail.com wrote: [removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org mailto:p...@freebsd.org wrote: (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) From: Eitan Adler . On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía

Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

2012-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; On 10/27/2012 22:08, hiren panchasara wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org mailto:p...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello Hiren; On 10/27/2012 16:48, hiren panchasara wrote: ... This is great news Hiren, Thanks! The stress test

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-24 Thread Pedro Giffuni
(cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) From: Eitan Adler  . On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1] in the porter's handbook[2]? This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as

Re: libdwarf

2012-07-28 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello guys; We are not using the dwarfstd library because it is copyleft and  SGI basically seems to have abandoned it for good. The Elftoolchain guys have taken over the development started  by John Birrell and are the official maintainers of the BSD version:

Interest in a Summer of Code in Space?

2012-06-20 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; This year the European Space Agency will have it's second Summer of Code in Space: http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2012/ This may be a good opportunity to get FreeBSD in yet-another interesting field, plus one of our projects in the Ideas Page seems to be ideal to get some funding from

Re: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation

2012-04-05 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi YongCon; The project would be very interesting for us. I am pretty sure you will not have problems finding a mentor. That said, let me point out an old thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042565.html I think the biggest problem is that you will have to get

Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea

2012-03-28 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello Efstratios ; In general, I agree with Gleb that you should start from the Apple Darwin port instead of spending time on the current FreeBSD driver. Please note that last year someone attempted to bring in smbfs from Darwin with your same strategy and failed: