DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2004-03
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My first real attempt at kernel hacking!
Ever since Matt added systimers, my DragonFly console has been lacking
something: an audible bell. I'm sure many people don't miss it, but I
got used to it, especially as feedback when tab-completion fails. So I
added a way to make syscons use my soundcard for ringing the bell.
The theory of operation is very simple. Every time the bell rings, the
syscons driver makes a byte available on /dev/consolectl. A userland
daemon, belld, opens /dev/consolectl and reads from it, which blocks
until a byte becomes available. When it does, belld spawns a
user-specified program (in my case, "/usr/local/bin/madplay ding.mp3"),
then waits for the next byte in an infinite loop.
Dead simple, but effective, and a good starter project for cutting my
teeth in the wild and woolly world of kernel programming.
The files are available here:
http://catseye.webhop.net/projects/belld/
If I get some positive feedback, I'll clean it up and send it to
submit@.
Thanks to Emiel, Rob, and Samy for the help and encouragement :)
-Chris
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