On 03/11/10 12:36, Gerard wrote:
I have read that 'HAL' is now considered depreciated and that it is no
longer being actively maintained. I have read many articles describing
its short comings, etc. I even came across this URL:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy, while not directly connected to
FreeBSD, it is interesting.
I was just wondering what the FreeBSD community is doing in regards to
"HAL"? Is there any work being done to replace it?
As described in the Ubuntu page, FreeBSD has for a long time had
mechanisms that do what HAL does, in a different way (see e.g.
/etc/devd.conf). Unfortunately, it is not popular enough for the various
application developers (from X.Org, Gnome, KDE) to build specific
support for these. The one quality HAL has is that, while ugly, it was
available on many platforms.
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