[openbeos] Re: Of Haiku and a HAL

"DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was day dreaming the other day instead of taking notes at class, 
> > and 
> > I came to think of the Win32 glue for the Interface Kit.  What if 
> > one 
> > extended this to other platforms, and different levels of Haiku?  
> > Shouldn't one (with the neccessary amount of glue) be able to run 
> > the 
> > servers on, say, Win32 or UN*X and write a syscall wrapper (and 
> > implement ports, etc.), enabling one to essentially run Haiku under 
> > a 
> > completely different OS without a noticable speed decrease?
>
> It's very much doable. In fact, it's been done for Win32 but not 
> released. A past contributor by the name of Marc Flerackers ported 
> Haiku to Win32 but was waiting until we release R1 before releasing 
> his 
> work so as not to preempt ours. There are screenshots out there, but 
> I 
> don't have the link handy. It shouldn't be hard to Google around for, 
> though.
> 
Yeah, first hit on Google for BNickName gives you the adress.  Thing 
is, I wanted to know if the glue for different platforms should perhaps 
live in the Haiku repository?

--
Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be

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