The HAL Spec

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sun May 7 11:12:41 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 16:22 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> I'm about to start implementing Firewire support for HAL for FreeBSD,
> and I noticed a big disparity in the HAL spec and what Linux does.  When
> I raised this kind of thing a few months ago, I was told to code to the
> spec, but I have since noticed many things that Linux does differently
> from the spec.

Like what? We should either fix the spec if it's wrong, or fix the linux
stuff to match the spec if the spec if correct.

Thanks,

Richard.



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