[openbeos] Re: MIPS32 port for GSoC

  • From: "Matt white" <mattwhi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:24:16 -0400

I think Haikod would be more fun and interesting than a router OS. Linux has
that kind of thing covered. why go into a niche market that is flooded?
whereas the iPod has a slim choice of alternate OS's that have sketchy
support at best. we could turn the iPod into a low cost multimedia PDA. now
that is a cool idea.

On 3/18/07, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it too late to add another item to Haiku's list of ideas
> for Google SoC 2007?
>
> I've been meaning to do some work towards a MIPS32 port,
> and have assembled documentation, books and hardware.
> It should be an interesting project and a good workout of
> the Haiku kernel code.

We already have at least one application that wasn't in our list of
ideas, so whatever you (or anyone else) have in mind, don't hesitate
and apply - we can't think of all the good ideas anyway :-)
We cannot promise anyone to be chosen, but actually applying would
definitely increase the probability ;-)

Our network stack would need quite a bit of work to make it a good idea
to put it on that kind of hardware, but that's no reason not to port it
now. Likewise, I wouldn't mind seeing Haiku on an iPod or similar
hardware either :)

Bye,
   Axel.





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Matthew White, Head of computers for the less fortunate.

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