[HN Gopher] Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V ...
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       Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board
        
       Author : nixcraft
       Score  : 87 points
       Date   : 2023-05-06 18:04 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (discuss.haiku-os.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (discuss.haiku-os.org)
        
       | psychphysic wrote:
       | Nice! I'm very pleased running my visionfive2 as a gateway to my
       | home network. But that itch to make it so something interesting
       | and not useful is starting again.
       | 
       | Maybe Haiku OS would be a good for a network bastion?
        
         | rcarmo wrote:
         | Networking in haiku wasn't that sophisticated last I tried it
         | on actual hardware.
        
       | snvzz wrote:
       | There is also some discussion in the VisionFive2 forum @ RVSpace.
       | 
       | https://forum.rvspace.org/t/progress-on-running-haiku-on-vis...
        
       | johndoe0815 wrote:
       | Amazing progress, especially for a single-person effort. X512's
       | posts (linked from https://github.com/X547/Haiku-riscv) are well
       | worth a read - can't wait to give it a try. The sources to the
       | VisionFive 2 port are not uploaded so far.
       | 
       | Haiku already runs great on the HiFive Unmatched board, the
       | VisionFive 2 version now makes it possible to run Haiku on a RISC
       | V machine which sells below $100 (+display, keyboard, mouse,
       | case). I would expect that the effort to port the OS to the
       | Pine64 Star64 board (which uses the same SoC as the VisionFive 2,
       | the JH7110) is relatively small, so there's another option to run
       | Haiku soon.
        
       | qubex wrote:
       | As a BeOS main-driver from the mid-1990s, I absolutely adore
       | this.
       | 
       | BeOS was just a dream to use back in 1997-1999. The performance
       | was absolutely spectacular (by the end I was running it on a dual
       | PIII-450MHz, a very rare high-end configuration at the time) and
       | the vision of a multithreaded OS that targeted multiprocessor
       | (SMP) systems with the slogan "One Processor Per User Is Not
       | Enough!" was truly visionary.
        
         | jaredhallen wrote:
         | I worked in a little local computer shop back in those days,
         | and remember putting together dual processor desktops that we
         | sold as our high end machines. Were those PIII's the old slot
         | type by any chance?
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | Haiku is really very usable - I'd encourage everyone to try it
         | out under qemu at least. It has a Windows 98-ish / Linux early
         | 2000s feel before things got complicated and unusable.
        
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