[Kde-hardware-devel] possibly port solid

Vikram Dhillon dhillonv10 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 22:09:17 CET 2009


My apologies for being ambiguous, I want to do some driver development
(making my own drivers) so I was thinking if I could use Solid to build
drivers in Ubuntu or may be as user space drivers as I am dual booting
Ubuntu and Kubuntu :)

Vikram


On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:25 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi Vikram,
> 
> On Saturday, 2009-11-28, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >           I have been looking through some docs. on solid through
> > google :) and see that solid is a really nice framework but its
> > attached to KDE. Is it possible to make it KDE-independant and may be
> > use it with the kernel. That would ease a lot of driver based tasks.
> 
> Solid is part of the KDE Development Platform but does not depend on other 
> parts of it (well, libsolid doesn't, libsolidcontrol seems to link with 
> libkdecore).
> 
> I am not sure what you mean with "use it with the kernel". Solid's 
> architecture allows it to implement its functionality in different backends so 
> it is most likely possible to use kernel facilities of  whatever operating 
> system you want to use it on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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