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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:57
Message-Id: loom.20090204T161525-298@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch <at> igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
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4 > having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is
5 > what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal'
6 > use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf)
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9 This link is short and reasonable.
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11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software)
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14 Hardware Abstraction Layer is a buzz term that means
15 many different things to many different hardware
16 designers who need software to make their designs
17 complete.
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20 hth,
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22 James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@×××××.com>