Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

[philcostin]

I would love to have a go at porting nouveau to Haiku and I can see all the components coming into place to make it possible.

However, I am extremely pressed for time which means that however much I want to do it, however possible it is right now I am sure someone else with more time and even more enthusiasm than I have will jump on it within days. If they do, they have my backing. If they don't, I'm preliminarily interested in doing it if I ever find some free time to allocate to that.

[cb88]

@Micheal This is a bit misleading as gallium itself is fully working using software raster the only it isn't merely partly ported

The part that is lacking is porting of the hardware driver.

Also it wouldn't be a *new* OpenGL stack it would be the same one with hardware support. in fact haiku alpha1 has mesa 7.4.x iirc which was just before the gallium switch... and mesa-git should work now I think. It hasn't been packaged up afaik though.

most of the opengl commits are by aljen so you could search for him in the haiku trac and find out lots of info just an fyi.

I will also point out that haiku now has a native webkit browser with supposedly sub 1 sec startup (I haven't tried myself yet) that is definitly worth investigating once released as stable most of the work at them moment being done on the browser is by stippi who has been hired by haiku inc to do just that.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop an open-source BeOS-compatible operating system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL stack this year. The Haiku project, like X.Org, will be participating in this year's Google Summer of Code project where the search engine giant pays many student developers to work on code for various open-source projects. There's a long list of ideas for where Haiku OS could use some help, and one of them includes a hardware 3D acceleration stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODA1NQ