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Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released by deaddodo on Saturday September 29, 2018 @09:07PM (#18103935)
The Application Server is in progress, but it builds. The problem is that on x86, you can fall back on the BIOS w/ VESA to display video; while ARM lacks that functionality. If you can find/build a video driver it should Just Work(tm).

You can see the current video drivers here:

https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/build/jam/images/...

Which are all x86/amd64-based. The RPi would actually be relatively simple to throw a framebuffer video driver together for, though:

* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/s...

* https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki

* https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/tree/master/video01

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Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released by waddlesplash on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:44PM (#18104182)
Err ... no? The problem with the ARM port is the lack of device drivers, and the fact that there is no userland/syscalls ABI set up yet at all. So there's still a lot to be done here.
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