[haiku-development] Re: What's the status of Haiku?

  • From: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:56:43 +0200

2014-08-21 15:15 GMT+02:00 Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On , Ingo Weinhold wrote:
>
>> On 20.08.2014 18:26, Sia Lang wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>     It is a lot to ask the Haiku community to abandon our current
>>> approach
>>>     for what sounds like a prototype.
>>>
>>> Totally agree, I'm not asking anyone to jump ship and join me.
>>>
>>> I am however asking the Haiku community to consider if the kernel choice
>>> made 14 years ago still makes sense. It's painful to leave a huge amount
>>> of work behind in the dust, but there's still so much Haiku work that
>>> would have a great life on top of a Linux or BSD based BeOS. With all
>>> the up-sides mentioned before (busses and drivers abound!)
>>>
>>
>> Unless I miss someone, of the Haiku developers (counting committers
>> only) who posted in this thread no one strictly opposed the idea of
>> switching to another kernel and most even seem to consider this an
>> interesting option.
>>
>
> -1
>
> Fixing the few remaining kernel bugs and getting a release out is more
> important than trying to move everything over to a Linux kernel (which
> would
> likely push any further releases back *years* given our current workforce.)
>
> Yes, it is rough to keep up with hardware drivers. However it can be done
> and
> we do support a *lot* of hardware at the moment. Do we support the latest
> fancy IceWire 2015 hardware? No. (that wasn't a real thing btw)
>
> Do we support enough hardware for day-to-day desktop use?  I think so.
>
> We've crossed the catch 22 of kernel design.  We support the *basics*, now
> lets get a solid release out to attract developers who like Haiku enough to
> make them *want* to write drivers for their shiny new IceWire 2015
> hardware.
>

It is not only about drivers (though it would be nice to have a proper
power management), but also about much better performance (especially in
terms of scaling on multicore processors) and features (e.g. kvm, lvm).

Paweł

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