HAL ported to FreeBSD
Artem Kachitchkine
Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM
Mon May 1 11:11:00 PDT 2006
> I like the ideal of having a shared script, e.g.
> hal-system-lcd-get-brightness that is shared between
> OS'es because we will do the policy checking in it. Maybe the
> answer here is to have
>
> tools/linux/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux
> tools/freebsd/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-freebsd
> tools/solaris/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-solaris
>
> and have tools/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness call the right one.
> Then on e.g. FreeBSD you don't have to install the bits in
> tools/linux or tools/solaris. Is this cool with you? Artem, what
> do you think?
That sounds good to me. At least with the right makefile infrastructure
under 'tools' (similar to what we have under 'hald' for backends) we can
choose the right level of sharing for each component.
-Artem.
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