[Kde-hardware-devel] possibly port solid

[Vikram Dhillon]

Thanks for your answer, you guys are really helpful, I wasn't expecting
an answer that quick :) I'll figure something else out.

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon


On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 13:45 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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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