[openbeos] Re: Driver Tutorial
- From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:57:00 +0000
One thing I would like to see is an entire area of "driver development"
tutorials/samples for Haiku/BeOS. This is one area where Haiku truly needs
more help if it wants to be a truly viable solution in the future. The
plethora of open-source drivers for other OSes should serve as decent
"reference drivers" for Haiku, and maybe someone with the knowledge can put
together some "driver porting" information to help potential driver-writers
to "port" driver code from other platforms to Haiku.
The thing is that the driver model is going to change. That's what
I've been hearing for a while now anyway. The only guy that probably
knows what the new driver model is going to look like is Axel, and
he's doing a lot of other things that are probably more important than
documenting the new driver model for now (like being on holiday in
France ;-).
This sort of creates a strange situation where it's probably useless
to document the new driver API since Haiku's not for general use
anyway, and it's useless to put a lot of effort in documenting the old
driver API since that one's going to be obsolute when Haiku releases
in 2012. Probably the best way to go about this is that someone spends
some hours collecting the resources that are currently available and
creates an index of them. Perhaps it's even time to start documenting
some of the functions that are going to be in Haiku and that are also
on BeOS to aid in common driver operations.
But I do think that waiting for things to stabilize is probably the
most efficient way to do. Guys like Chris who want to do things now
can get personalized advice via lists like bedrivertalk :-)
Niels
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