On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Robert Noland <rnol...@2hip.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Alan Coopersmith >> <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote: >> > Colin Guthrie wrote: >> >> 'Twas brillig, and Kevin Stange at 12/05/09 18:23 did gyre and gimble: >> >>> So you're saying this HAL method is widely (or narrowly, but by the >> >>> right people) disliked? Using Gentoo it seems to be encouraged, and >> >>> I've seen indications other distros (like Ubuntu) have picked up the >> >>> technique as well. >> >> >> >> HAL will eventually be phased out in favour of getting more direct >> >> information from udev. I'm not sure how that will impact the Xorg side >> >> of things but i'd imagine the end solution will be in some way related >> >> to udev. (this is just a guess tho) >> > >> > And for non-Linux systems? HAL is OS-agnostic, udev seems very Linux >> > specific. >> >> Well, there's DeviceKit, but I don't think anyone has any plans for >> DeviceKit-input or DeviceKit-graphics. I'd personally like to see an >> abstraction layer rather than putting one into Xorg. > > You don't consider HAL an reasonable abstraction layer?
Not when its creators are trying to get rid of it. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg