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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ithamar Adema" <iradema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Once Haiku is stable enough to do some serious developing, I'm all 
> > for
> > it - we're just not there yet.
> As I'm sure lots of people are looking for something to hack on in 
> the
> kernel, could you elaborate on which areas need work before
> self-hosting would be a serious option? ;)

Hehe :-)
There currently are 2 major stability problems in Haiku:
1) the reference counting with vm_cache/vm_area isn't safe - I haven't 
search for the actual error yet, but it sometimes crashes with a 
debugger message that suggests this is the case
2) the VM does not have a page scanner (the one we have is broken and I 
disabled it); it never chooses any page to be dispensable.

Those seem to be the main problems right now, and I didn't find the 
time and muse to look into it yet :-)
Probably related are rare sudden reboots, and the weak kernel heap 
implementation (to be replaced by a slab allocator).
If anyone would want to look into any of those issues, take your chance 
- oh, and please fill me in, so that we don't waste any efforts.

Bye,
   Axel.