[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Support for Ancient Computers?

Ingo Weinhold said:

we had pretty much the same discussion not that long ago.

 

I remember reading that discussion. Here, I was primarily interested in teasing 
out the rational between i586 and i686 targeting (the side-effect of excluding 
older chipsets could be a + or - .... Coding > verbiage). 

 

I wasn't looking to debating which x86 revision to target though; the time and 
place for that could be when LLVM is more mature, and using GCC 4.x + LLVM 
could demonstrably improve code generation. Within that context, the x86 target 
discussion would make sense. 

 

My mentioning x64 does constitute a port. Disregard that comment, please.

 

Regards,

Brian

 

PS: Hmmm, with this i686 talk, I suppose I may be trampling in R5 compatibility 
territory anyway ... perhaps I just answered my own question? More than ancient 
chipsets, is this the real reason Haiku targets a design that was replaced 11 
years ago? 

 

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From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ingo Weinhold
Sent: Mon 7/16/2007 4:02 PM
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Subject: [openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Support for Ancient Computers?



Guys,

we had pretty much the same discussion not that long ago. It was not about
supporting old x86, but about porting Haiku to ARM, RISC, or whatever. The
answer is pretty much the same, though: Haiku will support XYZ, if and only
if someone with the skill to implement it, judges it worth (or is bribed
into :-P) doing it, and actually does it. This might sound lame, like a
cliche, or whatever, but that's how open source development works.

CU, Ingo



















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