Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>Strictly speaking, Linux udev is highly specific to Linux and not >intended to be adopted elsewhere, and the Linux devfs it replaced has >no relation to Solaris devfs. There were bits of DeviceKit that were >meant to be portable and used udev as a backend on Linux, but >DeviceKit died. Hello Albe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Albert Lee
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs >> doesn't provide? > > Strictly speaking udev is a "successor" of devfs. What I actually want to know > is whether there are plans to implement/port udisks: Stric

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/18/11 11:40 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs >> doesn't provide? > > Strictly speaking udev is a "successor" of devfs. What I actually want to > know > is whether there are plans to implement/port udisks: > > http://w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs > doesn't provide? Strictly speaking udev is a "successor" of devfs. What I actually want to know is whether there are plans to implement/port udisks: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks GNOME, KDE, Xorg, and xf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/18/11 10:02 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > Hello, > > > It is a fact that HAL is now deprecated. Are there any plans to add > udev support to Illumos/OpenIndiana? The following contains > some ideas: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bsd@lists.debian.org/msg07113.html > > BTW, Co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Dustin Marquess
Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs doesn't provide? -Dustin On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > Hello, > > > It is a fact that HAL is now deprecated. Are there any plans to add > udev support to Illumos/OpenIndiana? The following con

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

2011-02-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, It is a fact that HAL is now deprecated. Are there any plans to add udev support to Illumos/OpenIndiana? The following contains some ideas: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bsd@lists.debian.org/msg07113.html BTW, Coopersmith has released binaries of Xorg 1.9.2. for Solaris 11 Express