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In 2023, Haiku got Emacs and Vulkan support that makes it much more attractive to me than in the past. But I still feel very reluctant to use something without
by Conscat 3y ago
In 2023, Haiku got Emacs and Vulkan support that makes it much more attractive to me than in the past. But I still feel very reluctant to use something without the industry support that Linux has.
- benley 3y agoDoes that mean they have some accelerated video drivers now? Last I checked (maybe a year ago) there were none at all.
- waddlesplash 3y ago(Haiku developer here.) There is one hardware accelerated driver, for Radeon Southern Islands; but it's third-party, out-of-tree, and not particularly simple to set up and get running. So, not really.
- benley 3y agoThanks for the response. Is there much hope for this to change at some point? I would love to eventually use Haiku on actual hardware, and the lack of video acceleration is the main thing that discourages me from giving it a go.
- waddlesplash 3y agoWell, there's nothing preventing it from happening if that's what you mean. It's just a difficult thing to do, and requires effort (and expertise.) I might take a crack at porting the KMS/DRM drivers from Linux eventually, but it's not near the top of my TODO list.