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Haiku's goal is being a full-fledged desktop/laptop OS, not a "mobile" OS; and most laptops and desktops right now are all x86, so that's what we primarily targ

Haiku's goal is being a full-fledged desktop/laptop OS, not a "mobile" OS; and most laptops and desktops right now are all x86, so that's what we primarily target. What's preventing you from running it on a laptop now?

rcarmo 7y ago
Proper power management and Wi-Fi. I have a Chromebook with Ubuntu that has well-supported OSS drivers but which won’t boot Haiku at all.
- waddlesplash 7y ago
  Yeah, proper power management is not likely to happen in the near future; it's a big task and nobody is working on it, due to ENOTIME. Wi-Fi may be more reasonable, but we still depend on FreeBSD for that, so we're still behind Linux. What chipset do you have? What do you mean by "won't boot Haiku at all"? No bootloader? Stuck on splash screen? Kernel panic?
  - wtetzner 7y ago
    What does ENOTIME mean?
    - kazinator 7y ago
      Probably a nonexistent POSIX errno constant, corresponding to a nonexistent message like "No time available".
  - rcarmo 7y ago
    Regardless, I’d rather have it run on a Pi. I don’t think of ARM as a mobile platform (at all).