Am 05.10.2010 23:18, schrieb Matthew Veety:
On Oct 5, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:53:43 +0200, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi, Am 05.10.2010 02:59, schrieb e-mail mathewblack:I have not been paying attention recently so I'm not sure how active a ARM port is.Zero activity, as far as I know. Certainly not in SVN.It mentions that the board's developers are offering some free boards for use in existing 'open source' projects. . Got to be worth ask?This is indeed pretty cool. Maybe Haiku Inc ought to ask for one in that form? . At least we should coordinate how fills out the form, there shouldn't be five developers from the project applying all at once, IMHO. ;-)Oops... I just applied for 5 boards before reading this. :D Nah, but really, everyone reading this hold off on applying for one until a central person is designated and noted here for the project. Thanks! -- AlexI could help work on the ARM port. I have some equipment that would love haiku on it
Thanks for the offer! Can you be more specific on what your experience is? IMHO, the ARM port, or in fact many other areas of Haiku development, needs people who can dig in and get their hands dirty. It wouldn't work to tell someone what to do. Or maybe that could work in theory, but I think we are lacking people who tell other people what to do in great detail. What works better perhaps is when you dig into a problem and then think you need to discuss your specific ideas about a solution that you have thought of. Then you most often get some input. The ARM port is started, there is some build system support, there are articles up on our website with instructions how to build for the ARM target and how to test in QEMU. I don't know if there will be more hand holding than that. Working on a platform port needs experienced people, or at least people willing to do low level, possibly tricky and complicated work. I doubt that someone who can't figure out large portions of the problems themselves will be successful in this area of work. But don't get me wrong, I am just sharing my thoughts, I am definitely not trying to shy anyone away, just trying to give an explanation on why there aren't any long time Haiku devs jumping at the opportunity and telling you what to do. Have you already read the ARM port status blog posts on www.haiku-os.org?
Best regards, -Stephan
