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I don't interpret parent's post as a complaint so much as an observation: Raspberry Pis are incredibly affordable little computers that are seemingly a good fit
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
I don't interpret parent's post as a complaint so much as an observation: Raspberry Pis are incredibly affordable little computers that are seemingly a good fit for Haiku since they have relatively little diversity of hardware to deal with (outside USB devices of course), would benefit from a less bloated Desktop, and little otherwise is expected of them. Lots of people have various Pi models laying around in want of something to do with them, and lots of people would like to play with Haiku outside of a VM, so I agree with parent that it seems like a missed opportunity.
- morganvachon 5y agoAs both a Haiku and RPi fan, I agree they would be a great combination. RiscOS has run on the Pi since the first model, and if that combination's performance is anything to go by, Haiku would likely run circles around Linux on Pis. The problem, as others have said, is the lack of dedicated manpower. This is one of those situations where I wish I was a developer, I'd dive right in and try to get Haiku to daily-driver stability on the platform. There is work being done on porting to ARM already, and my hope is that as the X86/64 platform matures, focus can shift to ARM and the Pi specifically.
- MisterTea 5y agoI think its very disingenuous to call the lack of hardware support a "missed opportunity". There is a Pi port in progress but the Pi as a platform outside of Linux is a mess. Its not a well documented SoC and does weird stuff like boot via the GPU using a binary blob and other proprietary crap. It also has a different DMA architecture so drivers developed originally for PC hardware need to be modified. Ironically its a not very open source friendly SoC.
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