[haiku] Re: Haiku's own computer?
- From: Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:31:08 -0500
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Dennis Catt <cattmail@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> What about ARM? I can imagine ARM will make its way to the desktop in a few
> short years.
There'd have to be a massive amount of work for that to happen for a
number of reasons. Most notably ARM currently doesn't define a
standard platform the way x86 PCs do, the only commonality is the
instruction set. Everyone's SoC is different, and as such so is
interrupt routing and a ton of other low level stuff, as a consequence
of which you pretty much have to make a custom OS build for the
specific board you're targetting. Unless that drastically changes,
ARM-based desktops aren't likely to happen any time soon. Completely
ignoring that issue though, Haiku's ARM port doesn't currently get far
enough to even fully initialize the kernel, and a lot more work would
be needed to get it actually booting to a usable GUI. So for at least
the foreseeable future that's not really a viable choice.
Regards,
Rene
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