Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2012 20:28 UTC
"During the coding period, I will first work on the boot loader. I intend to modify the existing x86 boot loader so that it is capable of loading both a 32-bit Haiku kernel and a 64-bit one. Once this is done, I will work on implementing the x86_64 architecture functionality in the kernel. Finally, I will port modules and drivers to the 64-bit kernel. Should I have time, I will also begin work on porting userland." Heck. Yes.
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I'm excited about it because Haiku needs to face forward, not hold on to the past. I realize it is a resurrection of a long-dead OS and needs the backward compatibility for the R1 release, but looking forward I feel it will have much more momentum if there is a 64 bit option.
I also hope this move will push app developers to take the platform seriously, and start porting over the good stuff. I've never been an app-paradigm fan, but I have enough common sense to realize that developers in general are focused on apps and that's where the activity is.
Member since:2005-07-06
I'm excited about it because Haiku needs to face forward, not hold on to the past. I realize it is a resurrection of a long-dead OS and needs the backward compatibility for the R1 release, but looking forward I feel it will have much more momentum if there is a 64 bit option.
I also hope this move will push app developers to take the platform seriously, and start porting over the good stuff. I've never been an app-paradigm fan, but I have enough common sense to realize that developers in general are focused on apps and that's where the activity is.
I also hope this move will push app developers to take the platform seriously, and start porting over the good stuff. I've never been an app-paradigm fan, but I have enough common sense to realize that developers in general are focused on apps and that's where the activity is.
I'm not sure I understand your point. In what way will having a 64-bit version push developers to port their applications?
Like a few people above, I don't get why people are excited about this.
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Haiku is so fast that I doubt you will notice much change in the speed of the operation of the OS.
However, I do have a program that I need to get running to process a 136GB drive image, making such code work in Haiku's 2GB user space is a pain. I am doing a lot of paging (my own paging system with 16MB pages) that moving to a system with a larger user space will help a lot for example why a 64-bit OS would be handy.
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I know what you mean. I'm an active Haiku user and have it installed on my hard drive. I suppose the reason I'm not so excited about the 64 bit port is that, after all of the (amazing) work that will be done on it, when I install it, it won't feel any different than when I was using the 32 bit version.
Compare that to, say, a hypothetical GSoC project to update the GoBe Productive source code for Haiku.
Edited 2012-04-30 01:17 UTC