[GSoC 2022] Ham: Final Report

Blog post by dominicm on Sat, 2022-09-10 10:42

Hello everyone. Thank you for having me the past few months; it’s been a busy, fun ride. This is the final report for Ham, a replacement to the Jam build system. I’d like to thank Stephan Aßmus for taking the time to mentor me, and the rest of the Haiku community for being responsive and receptive to Ham’s development. You can find the Ham repo on Github, as well as a project board for current issues.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Fri, 2022-09-09 22:00

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56321 to hrev56399.

David Karoly, who has been doing a lot of work in and around the ARM ports, was granted commit access last month. Welcome to the team, David!

[GSoC 2022] XFS : Final Report

Blog post by mashijams on Fri, 2022-09-09 00:00

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. GSoC 2022 is nearing its end so here is the final report on my project, which aims at adding more XFS file system support on Haiku. You can see all my patches submitted during program here Work done during program This is short overview of all the work I did during GSoC : XFS version 5 support Implemented version 5 read support for all forms of directories Implemented version 5 read support for all forms of files.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2022

Blog post by waddlesplash on Tue, 2022-08-09 23:00

As is now the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

This report covers hrev56236 to hrev56320.

[GSoC 2022] ARM port and device tree support Phase 1

Blog post by Zhihong Niu on Thu, 2022-07-28 00:00

Hello everyone. It’s been a rough month, I’m having issues with the ARM port and it’s holding me back. Anyway, I’m on my way, which is great news. TODO Continue the ARM port The latest issue is a page fault occur at thread 778(which is the user thread). 778: init: libz.so.1 vm_page_fault: vm_soft_fault returned error 'Bad address' on fault at 0x0, ip 0x0, write 0, user 1, exec 1, thread 0x30a thread_hit_serious_debug_event(): Failed to install debugger: thread: 778 (launch_daemon): Bad port ID Prepare fdt

[GSoC 2022] Ham: Status Update

Blog post by Dominic Martinez on Thu, 2022-07-21 09:02

Hello everyone. This is a brief update on the Ham project - a drop in replacement for the Jam build system. For those more curious about the technical details, there will be a larger blog post on Ham’s action modifier implementation coming soon. What’s been done so far? The majority of the work has been in implementing Jam language features. Today, Ham hit a major milestone by supporting all of Jam’s action modifiers (updated, together, quietly, piecemeal, ignore, and existing).

[GSoC 2022] XFS : Project Update

Blog post by mashijams on Tue, 2022-07-19 00:00

Hello everyone. It’s been a month since I had written any blog on my project so here is the one. You can see all my patches submitted here Abstract After completing a task for xfs V5 superblock I began my work on version 3 inodes and implemented new fields introduced in V5, Inode Verification functions, data fork verification function etc.. Soon we had a valid version 3 inode which passed all the checks.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, June 2022: 802.11ac WiFi

Blog post by waddlesplash on Sat, 2022-07-09 15:30

As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report. Since there is just so much to report this month, instead of the usual chronological order by section, instead things will be loosely sorted by “size”.

This report covers hrev56148 to hrev56235.

[GSoC 2022] ARM port and device tree support Phase 1

Blog post by Zhihong Niu on Fri, 2022-06-24 00:00

In the first stage of work, the following content was completed: Compile and run arm haiku on osx Fixed some runtime errors The following will show how to compile haiku on osx and run it on qemu (my version: hrev56168) Build and run Haiku on OSX (Intel) Preparation Before starting, since the default file system(APFS) is not case-sensitive, you must first create a case-sensitive volume. Open Disk Utility.

[GSoC 2022] XFS : Community Bonding Progress

Blog post by mashijams on Tue, 2022-06-14 00:00

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. Community bonding period ended, so here is the blog on my progress so far. You can see all my patches submitted here Abstract I started my work with moving CRC calculation files from ext2 driver to shared folder (so that it can be used by every other filesystem that needs it) and made it fs_shell compatible. CRC’s are used to detect minor corruption in filesystem and is one of the major features introduced for xfs version 5 as metadata checksumming.