[OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Feb 18 19:07:00 UTC 2011


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, Coopersmith has released binaries of Xorg 1.9.2. for Solaris 11 Express
> 
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=135530
> 
> Is there udev support included?

No, because no one has ported libudev to anything other than Linux.
It still uses HAL, as do all non-Linux platforms.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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