[haiku-development] Re: R1a5 driver blocker issues (ATTN: Alexander)
- From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:45:48 -0400
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Julian Harnath <
julian.harnath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Instead of a fix for that, maybe it would be simpler if we could add
> some kind of specific boot error message in this case? Is it possible
> to catch this problem in the USB code and just panic with a specific
> message? Most computers still have a few USB2-ports in addition to
> USB3. If a non-haiku-savvy users sees "cannot find boot volume", they
> will have no idea what's wrong. If the message in this case was "USB3
> unsupported, please try booting with USB2 port" it would be clearer and
> many could help themselves.
>
How many? A lot of the newer machines I've seen (or used) are USB3 only by
now. While that may be helpful, it would be a large hit to our hardware
compatibility...
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't go around changing the priority of tickets, based on what you
> think needs to be in a next release. (A release and a release schedule that
> few contributors seem to agree with.)
>
Actually, I haven't heard either way for the end-of-August release
schedule. Also, Jessicah agreed with me on this, so it wasn't just me here.
> #10750 does not cause data loss/corruption or otherwise bring down an
> already running system.
>
No, but it fails booting. Isn't that serious enough?
> It is a hardware specific issue.
>
Yes, and it stops use of Haiku on most recent machines (it's older than
UEFI, which there are workarounds for in the UEFI bootloaders -- there are
no workarounds for this on a USB3-only system).
-Augustin
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