What still requires HAL?

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:

> Does Gnome still require HAL?  Does KDE?  xfce does not.  Are we
> approaching a point at which the xorg-server port option for HAL can
> be set to default to off?

KDE uses a hardware abstraction library called Solid. On FreeBSD, it
still uses HAL; the options would be to either write a devd backend for
it or somehow make FreeBSD work with udev and friends (for which a
backend already exists and is the default on Linux).