instead to change the decorator, a fullscreen app like zhone for arm phones will be a better idea i think. have a running kernel will be a good first step no ? 2008/9/26 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> > > But for an ARM port I'm sure I could find time to help out :) I think > > Haiku > > makes a lot of sense as an embedded OS, although I think you'd > > probably need > > to change the UI quite a bit for small screens once it was working. > > I think a custom decorator would be the first step, but we're not there > yet. > > > > > I am also not > > > > familiar with haiku and this 'pervasive multi-threading' sounds a > > > > bit > > > > scary. > > > > > > It's really buzzword, using you usually don't even notice windows > > > use > > > their own threads in simple code, you just use it. > > > > Is 'pervasive multi-threading' used at the kernel level? That is what > > was > > worrying me, it didn't quite make sense to my mind and sounds like it > > could > > make development hard! > > It's used in the kernel for few things, like network card input, kernel > daemon and such. Nothing weird, even Linux does it nowadays (one more > thing they copied from BeOS :P). > > > > However, we'll be focussing on R1/alpha for x86 the next months, > > > and I > > > have the m68k port to finish first :D > > > > I read your article but I have to say that porting to 68k sounds a > > bit > > insane! Nothing wrong with that though... > > Well, when it works it'll probably hit /. :D > > > At the very least I'll keep following your progress and continue to > > tell > > everyone I know about this amazing OS that they WILL be using next > > year... > > hehe :) > > François. > > -- LECOQ Vincent vincent.lecoq@xxxxxxxxx 06 10 81 52 96 «La faculté de citer est un substitut commode à l'intelligence» — Sommerset Maugham