[Kde-hardware-devel] possibly port solid

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2009-11-28, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> 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 :)

Ah.
In this case you'll have to find something else to work with. Solid is on a 
layer in the software software stack that is above drivers. It gathers 
information from kernel and system level APIs and presents them to the 
application developer in a uniform way across systems.

It might be useful for user space device management though.
(e.g. listing USB devices, but the low level communication will have to be 
implemented elsewhere).

Cheers,
Kevin

> 
> 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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