[haiku-development] Re: What's the status of Haiku?
- From: Rudolf Cornelissen <rudhaiku@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:21:44 +0200
I wrote apparantly:
- Sounds like much farther developed that still early alpha state ;-)
I meant of course that it's so stable and useable to me that I think from
that perspective it should not be still alpha. It seems to deserve more
than that. And it deserves much more users than there actually are :)
Rudolf.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Rudolf Cornelissen <rudhaiku@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> If someone is to complete the ARM port and add a serial driver, I could
> complete the translation myself :-)
> Though of course the acceleration functions are nolonger used on Haiku.
>
> BTW I still love haiku, and every time I boot it I see again how stable it
> is and how easy it works.. Sounds like much farther developed that still
> early alpha state ;-)
>
> These days BTW my full-time job concerns windows app development and
> maintenance.. never thought I'd be doing that..
>
> Bye!
>
> Rudolf.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Andrew Hudson <
> dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >http://haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/writing-video-card-drivers ?
>>
>> >François.
>>
>>
>> >Yes, it was an interesting reading but unfortunately the Chapter 6
>> (Writing the Driver) was never finished
>>
>> >I've seen this document in numerous places, for years, & always hoped
>> that it would be finished by those with the knowledge to do so. Sadly, it
>> never happened. This could have ended up being the most important driver
>> document for BeOS/Haiku. It's missing >far more than just chapter 6. Maybe
>> developers will drift in & flesh it out more as time goes own 7 with the
>> proper motivation. It might be beneficial to ping past video driver writers
>> & ask them to take a few moments of their time to contribute to the
>> document. >The worst that could happen is that they say 'no'. But, if they
>> say 'yes'...
>>
>> >--
>> >Regards,
>> >A. D. Sharpe, Sr.
>>
>> >I second that, the article was very good.
>>
>> No article will ever have enough details on how to write a functional
>> video card device driver. If you really want to write a video card device
>> driver
>> you must go to the source code and figure it out. Recompile it, make
>> changes, understand what the kernel wants, put the time in. This is how it
>> is done.
>>
>> Otherwise you are just arm chair coding. I encourage you to make the
>> leap and just go do it.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
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