[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] ARM target support
- From: Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:25:13 -0500
On , Stephen Hite wrote:
Technical reasons aside, why wouldn't the Pi become the #1 focus for
an ARM port? They just surpassed 3 million in sales. That's a lot
of potential for the organic growth of Haiku.
The hardware is mostly GPU with a small arm v6 CPU bolted to it. It
definitely is a target but not any kind of power house.
(it lacks hardware MMU)
I did the original Raspberry Pi work, the platform isn't great to
develop
our initial ARM code on as getting JTAG is a big pain involving a
soldering iron.
(at least one older models). qemu support for the Raspberry Pi is
non-existant except
in 3rd party emulators as the board firmware is *not* open source. (yes
there are a lot
of articles on running raspberry pi images in qemu, but they all want
you to recompile
a custom kernel that is more generic than the hardware included in the
Pi.)
The public interest is extremely high, but from a technical point the
Beaglebone
is a lot more capable, almost the same price, and completely open
source.
Anyway, the biggest reason is the lack of interested ARM developers +
free time.
Patches welcome :-)
-- Alex
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