Please don't top post on this list. It's considered rude. You are talking about HAL, an abstract concept. The OP is talking about hal, a definite package - sys-apps/hal. Recent X.org uses it to autoconfigure input devices on startup
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:34:28 Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > Um, you are using the HAL weather you want to or not, it's not really an > option! > > The HARDWARE ABSTRACTION LAYER with respect to good ol linux happens > to be your kernel and it's drivers. > > The bare metal registers within which all those bits are moved is > called the hardware; all those configuration files and source you > compile is considered the software, anything that creates the > transparency between the two is refereed to as the HAL (In windows 98 > it was a single DLL file), in Linux it's the source code and binaries > of the kernel and drivers, all modern computers regardless of low > level arch have a HAL. > > Regards, > Hazen. > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > Helmut Jarausch <jarausch <at> igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > >> having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is > >> what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' > >> use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) > > > > This link is short and reasonable. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software) > > > > > > Hardware Abstraction Layer is a buzz term that means > > many different things to many different hardware > > designers who need software to make their designs > > complete. > > > > > > hth, > > > > James -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
