[haiku] Re: Haiku for Raspberry Pi?

  • From: Ivan Vodopiviz <merkoth@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:06:49 -0300

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Very nice looking project, thanks for the link. I'll definitely be getting
> one for that price.
>
> A Haiku ARM port has been discussed a bit, had some work done on it (was the
> subject of one of the less successful GSoCs) but I suspect it's probably
> still quite some way from working. Not sure what Broadcom are like for
> open-source drivers (wouldn't have thought those SoCs support VESA or
> anything) but would be fun to play with it all the same.

Besides endianess and the obvious difference in performance, what are
the main difficulties of porting Haiku to ARM? Does make extensive use
of x86 assembly?


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Iván Vodopiviz

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