Mesa 21.0 Is Now Working With Haiku OS For Software OpenGL Rendering

[digitalsin]

Sometime last year I tested Haiku, and when using that (old) version of llvm, openarena was fast enough to be playable on the cpu (i7). In fact, I found it faster than a radeon 4870 on Linux with accelerated Mesa...

[microcode]

They could do like OpenBSD and import the KMS drivers, and not gaze long into that abyss, lest it gaze into them.

[Grim85]

BeOS was one of my first forays into a Windows alternative as a teenager (after having struggled with Red Hat Linux), I really thought BeOS could make it big and then it just died, so I always have a soft spot of Haiku

[kneekoo]

Fantastic news! Well done, Haiku!

Time for some testing...

[topolinik]

Michael , what about this?
https://github.com/phoronix-test-sui...ite/issues/443
is it at least under evaluation?

[topolinik]

edit: They do have plans to switch to gcc8.

Their 64 bit release gets already built by gcc-8.3.0, what am I missing?

[skeevy420]

BeOS was one of my first forays into a Windows alternative as a teenager (after having struggled with Red Hat Linux), I really thought BeOS could make it big and then it just died, so I always have a soft spot of Haiku

Same here. Red Hat and all. When the non-MS OS dust settled I was a Debian user. Every time I see a Haiku article here it reminds me of those early days.

[kallisti5]

Their 64 bit release gets already built by gcc-8.3.0, what am I missing?

Nothing really :-) You're correct.

Our x86 32-bit version of Haiku runs GCC 2.95 to keep BeOS binary compatibility.

Our arm,arm64,riscv64,ppc,m68k, and x86_64 versions all run GCC 8.3.0.

There's also no limitation on us upgrading from GCC 8.3.0 to GCC 9,10,11... someone just needs to port our 8.3.x patches to a later version of GCC.

[Vistaus]

They could do like OpenBSD and import the KMS drivers, and not gaze long into that abyss, lest it gaze into them.

They already import FreeBSD drivers.

[Vistaus]

Is Haiku better than Linux?
Does it have higher performance, cleaner interface, a more robust security model?

It is often a lot faster that Linux. Not sure about the system calls interface, but the GUI is something you either love or hate. I personally love it

If only Vivaldi browser was available for Haiku, then I would switch to it full-time