Re: Looking to help

"Morgan Howe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You may want to have a look at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1082 
> > but
> > I'm not sure it's a good candidate, as the locking might be tricky.
> > To get in touch with the Be/Haiku kernel services, you could also 
> > help
> > out Kaoutsis with http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1071 ie. writing 
> > test
> > apps.
> Maybe I'll go ahead and start taking a look at 1082.  That should be 
> about
> as good of an introduction as anything.  I'll have to learn locking 
> sometime
> anyway, right?  :)

True enough :-)
At least it's something where you only have to write little code, but 
have to dig in deeply :)

> > One peculiarity of the Be/Haiku kernel is that it mirrors most of 
> > the
> > actual user API, that is, the functions you're using when doing 
> > kernel
> > programming are partially POSIX plus the usual Be kernel API
> > components. There are only a dozen or so calls that are only 
> > available
> > in the kernel.
> I'll get started on that and go ahead and browse through the 
> documentation.
> Hopefully that will give me at least enough of a base to ask an 
> intelligent
> question about the task.  :)

Of course, as long as you are *in* the kernel, there are lots of other 
calls you will have to use. What I wrote above only concerns the 
exported API - for drivers or other kernel modules.
Anyway, if you have any questions, feel free to ask if you can't figure 
it out.

> I would've gotten back with you sooner, but I've been trying to get 
> haiku
> building on my mac.  Unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it will be 
> an
> option.  I was able to get the development tools to build, but it has 
> all
> kinds of problems when I try to build haiku.  I have some Linux boxes 
> around
> I can use, I was just hoping to use my mac since it's a lot better of 
> a
> machine.  Was worth a shot anyway.

It should build on FreeBSD at least, so there was a chance it would 
have worked. I don't know the source of the problems, but at least in 
theory, it should be buildable on a Mac, too. Maybe someone should look 
into this one day.

Bye,
   Axel.


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