03-06-2008
Do you mean the HAL for Linux like the hal daemon for Fedora Core or Redhat?
System V had what was called a microkernel, about 25 years ago, but I don't think too many unixes have one now...
What system? - hardware and OS
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hal-device
hal-device(1M) System Administration Commands hal-device(1M)
NAME
hal-device - manage HAL devices
SYNOPSIS
hal-device [-h] [--a udi | --r udi]
DESCRIPTION
The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) provides a view of the various hardware attached to a system. The hal-device command enables you to
manage devices that conform to the HAL standard. Specifically, hal-device lets you add or remove a device to or from the HAL global device
list. Device properties are read from stdin in lshal(1M) syntax.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a, --add udi Add device specified by Universal Device Identifier udi to HAL's global device list.
-h Display usage information.
-r, --remove udi Remove device specified by Universal Device Identifier udi from HAL's global device list.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWhalr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)
SunOS 5.11 25 Aug 2006 hal-device(1M)