From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUkRp-0006UB-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F41FE02FB; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE15E02FB for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33AF64563 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.886 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.886 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.713, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Zt83ae8kIkK7 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3F364C86 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUkRb-0000eH-19 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:43 +0000 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:43 +0000 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090117 SeaMonkey/1.1.14) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ce49feef-b161-45ee-8f12-28408ae44ee9 X-Archives-Hash: fd9ceb6fdd46a8186fdad7d0bd705a0c Helmut Jarausch igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is > what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' > use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) This link is short and reasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software) Hardware Abstraction Layer is a buzz term that means many different things to many different hardware designers who need software to make their designs complete. hth, James