[haiku-development] Re: ARM Port
- From: "LECOQ Vincent" <vincent.lecoq@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:17:07 +0200
instead to change the decorator, a fullscreen app like zhone for arm phones
will be a better idea i think.
have a running kernel will be a good first step no ?
2008/9/26 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
> > But for an ARM port I'm sure I could find time to help out :) I think
> > Haiku
> > makes a lot of sense as an embedded OS, although I think you'd
> > probably need
> > to change the UI quite a bit for small screens once it was working.
>
> I think a custom decorator would be the first step, but we're not there
> yet.
>
> > > > I am also not
> > > > familiar with haiku and this 'pervasive multi-threading' sounds a
> > > > bit
> > > > scary.
> > >
> > > It's really buzzword, using you usually don't even notice windows
> > > use
> > > their own threads in simple code, you just use it.
> >
> > Is 'pervasive multi-threading' used at the kernel level? That is what
> > was
> > worrying me, it didn't quite make sense to my mind and sounds like it
> > could
> > make development hard!
>
> It's used in the kernel for few things, like network card input, kernel
> daemon and such. Nothing weird, even Linux does it nowadays (one more
> thing they copied from BeOS :P).
>
> > > However, we'll be focussing on R1/alpha for x86 the next months,
> > > and I
> > > have the m68k port to finish first :D
> >
> > I read your article but I have to say that porting to 68k sounds a
> > bit
> > insane! Nothing wrong with that though...
>
> Well, when it works it'll probably hit /. :D
>
> > At the very least I'll keep following your progress and continue to
> > tell
> > everyone I know about this amazing OS that they WILL be using next
> > year...
>
> hehe :)
>
> François.
>
>
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