[openbeos] Haiku on ARM

Hello,

> Well to give Palm as an example a haiku for a pda would mean
> 1) no floating point. this will especially affect appserver

Heh, this very much depends on the ARM core used. Almost all new
ARM11-based processors actually support floating point natively (using
something like a coprocessor). I know, I have some developmentboards at
work with these babies...

> 2) a whole new "tracker"

Hmm, I would say a simplified Tracker ;)

> 3) a file system based on smaller amounts of flash ram probably won't
> be BeFS

Looking at the Samsung Movinand technology they announced recently to be
up to 8GB, I wonder... ;)

> 4) all the real fun stuff such as media kit probably won't fit or be
> requested

Hmmm, let me check this ARM 11 dev board.... TV out... Video In.... 5.1
sound... Hmmm... need I say more ;)

> 5) and of course the kernel port to arm

Which, thanks to Travis' nice work at the base, isn't as hard as it
might sound. I can tell you that Haiku is a lot easier set up for arch
ports then most other code bases I've seen....

Anyhow, we can discuss this all we want, until somebody steps up and
tries it it is mostly wasted words/time. If somebody feels like it, let
them try, and lets see how far that gets. We can always decide then to
make a seperate HaikuIA branch if we'd see use for that :D

HTH,

Ithamar.

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