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OpenSolaris Project: Tamarack: Removable Media Enhancements in Solaris

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This project aims to improve user experience with removable media and hotpluggable devices in Solaris. It concerns various aspects such as hotplug, discovery, content recognition as well as usability, security and performance across all layers of the software stack from device drivers to GUI.

Final ARC materials (PSARC 2005/399)

• Proposal
• Interfaces
• HAL and D-Bus
• Vold transition

Articles

• HAL reverse engineered

Tools

• HAL Device Manager is a Python GNOME application that shows a tree of HAL devices and their properties. Basically a GUI version of lshal(1M). This is a development tool, not an end-user application. Screenshot.
  Download package (x86 and sparc): SUNWhal-device-manager.