Haiku Activity Update #3: 28 August-8 September 2007

Blog post by tangobravo on Fri, 2007-09-14 07:06

I’ve decided to switch to an update every two weeks, which will hopefully prove more resilient to Real Life (TM). I’ll also start being a little more selective about the changes I report to make it at bit less work for me to write, and a bit less work for you to read!

In brief, this period saw a lot of bug fixing work from the core contributors. A first firewire implementation was committed to the tree, Ingo completed Job Control support, Mail received a much-needed code cleanup, and Marcus continued the initial work on the AHCI SATA driver.

Read on for more on those, updates on mailing list discussions, and to find out how I managed to include a reference to Shakespeare…

Haiku at HUMBUG

Blog post by sikosis on Wed, 2007-09-12 10:06

On the 8th September, I attended a local Unix user group called HUMBUG, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. This was their Annual General Meeting, which was very much an informal gathering of 34 unix users and with the Haiku presence we had, we definitely made an impression; certainly more people know about Haiku than yesterday, and that’s gotta be a good thing. Earlier that day when I was driving to the University, I got stuck behind this white hatchback, which had the license plate letters KDL.

Impression about my GSoC with HAIKU and USB isochronous support status

Blog post by emitrax on Wed, 2007-09-05 13:32

During this summer I had the chance to improve myself, and work on the USB isochronous support of HAIKU. I wrote some code for every layer of the HAIKU USB stack: USBKit library, usb_raw driver, usb bus manager and most of all the uhci driver. I also spent/waisted some weeks with the usb_webcam media addon, but sadly with not success. Anyway here is what I did. UHCI driver: Basically I added all the necessary code to handle isochronous transfer in both direction (in and out).

JavaScriptCore Runs on Haiku! (mostly)

Blog post by leavengood on Wed, 2007-09-05 04:27

So after a few frustrating weeks of very little progress on my WebKit port, I have finally gotten JavaScriptCore running on Haiku!

My feelings about GSOC and Firewire status

Blog post by absabs on Fri, 2007-08-31 02:36

During this summer I was working under my mentor Jerome Duval’s guidance. This is the first time I tried to be part of the GSOC program. I started reading as many documents about HAIKU as I can find before I was accepted on 11th April. I checked out the haikus’s source and built it and tested it on qemu. I was shocked by its clean and user-friendly desktop. I started reading its source after 1st May.

Haiku Activity Update #2: 21-27 August 2007

Blog post by tangobravo on Thu, 2007-08-30 18:48

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post, here’s the summary for last week’s activity in Haiku-land.

This week saw the driver for AHCI SATA controllers begun in earnest, the beginnings of job control support in the shell (and associated kernel stuff), a Sudoku game added to the image, and more bugs squashed.

There was also a discussion on the development mailing list about “hybrid” images of Haiku, allowing both GCC 2 and GCC 4 compiled apps to work on the same system.

Haiku Activity Update #1: 14-20 August 2007

Blog post by tangobravo on Wed, 2007-08-29 19:45

A couple of months ago there was a debate on the mailing list about the openness of the Haiku project. I made the point that there was a lot of information in the public domain - SVN commits logs, bug updates, and a multitidue of mailing lists - the problem was that activity on these fronts was not obvious to more casual Haiku-watchers. I should have kept my mouth shut, because I ended up agreeing to write some summaries of this activity! This is the first of what will hopefully be weekly updates. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions below.

WebKit Port Complications

Blog post by leavengood on Mon, 2007-08-20 23:31

I have been documenting my progress on porting the WebKit project to Haiku on the Haikuware site, but decided to also post information here. You may want to read my previous blog article about this port and also the information at the WebKit bounty on Haikuware. Please consider donating to a bounty.

Before I started work on this port I asked in the #webkit IRC channel what the mimimum version of GCC that was required to compile WebKit. The general consensus was 4.0. So what does that mean?

Axel does not have a secret patch

Blog post by stippi on Sun, 2007-08-12 07:14

Whenever I was with Axel and saw Haiku running on his IBM ThinkPad T40p, I was almost convinced, that he must have forgotten to commit a rather effective patch, though he swore that that was not the case. I have never seen the app_server perform so well on any other machine.

My experience at the Summer Gathering in Lucerne, Switzerland

Blog post by stippi on Sun, 2007-08-05 12:39

My backpack turned out really heavy, because at the moment, I have no mobile computer. Luckily I have one of those "industry embedded" machines, as big as an external CD-ROM drive. But I still had to pack my 17" flat screen. The travelling by train was nice, although I almost got off at the wrong station in Basel. I mean, I did get off, but I got back in in time.