Haiku makes huge progress on RISC-V support

Date:
Mon, 08 May 2023 04:31:52 GMT

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Booting to desktop. Full USB support and everything.

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In super exciting Alternative Operating Systems ported to Alternative CPU Architecture news: Haiku OS is now booting, to a functional desktop, on a RISC-V computer.

Thats right. The open source reimplementation of BeOS (Haiku) is now
running, to a fairly advanced degree, on an open source RISC-V CPU.

The developer of this piece of technical wizardry (known as X512) posted the following picture if Haiku in action , running on the VisionFive 2 RISC-V board :

Now, before you get too excited this isnt quite ready for prime-time yet. According to the developer, it requires jumping through a number of hoops in order to get it booting.

In addition to Haiku image written to NVMe I also used U-Boot on SD card from default Debian. Haiku EFI boot loader is located on SD card. U-Boot do not want to run EFI boot loader from NVMe (or I am doing something wrong).

Thats some serious hoop-jumping.

So, as of this moment, there is no ready-to-go images of Haiku on RISC-V.
But this is a massive step towards seeing that happen.

This initial work is being done specifically with the VisionFive 2 board
with the code available on GitHub which is powered by a RISC-V CPU up to 1.5GHz, and up to 8GB of RAM.

But much of this work can likely be applied to other RISC-V based systems in the future.

Which is a pretty exciting prospect. Imagine running a truly unique, open source operating system on a truly unique, open hardware RISC-V platform.

The coolness factor is off the charts. Share

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