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Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

Posted Jul 18, 2006 16:28 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313)
In reply to: Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API by cventers
Parent article: Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

the HAL api presented to userspace should be cross platform, but the part of HAL that does the work is very platform specific. a cross platform version is just all the specific versions combined with ifdefs and similar


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Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

Posted Jul 19, 2006 9:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The different platform versions are actually in subdirectories, not ifdeffed out. HAL's not *that* ugly. :)

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