Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2025 | Haiku Project

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This report covers hrev58584 through hrev58696.

jscipione fixed opening folders by double-clicking the “Location” column in query results in Tracker. He also fixed hard-coded values for certain menu item metrics, bringing them in line with standard menu metrics, cleaned up some parts of drag & drop support, refactored some of the drawing logic, made some fixes to add-on loading, and more.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-03-11-haiku_activity_contract_report_february_2025
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Nice progress again! Thanks to all involved, and welcome to the new contributors! :+1:

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Amazing progress once again, thank you everyone.

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Sounds like a lot of background work has been done.

Is the i2c driver in the nightlies, and is it coming to beta5?

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waddlesplash reworked the “IA32 BIOS” bootloader to report the ACPI root pointer (same as the EFI bootloader), and to always use this in ACPI initialization rather than trying to re-find it.

I have a question for that, it’ll be minor question. would it help any 32-bit efi user to identify the problem? Like how bootloader take too long to booting until reach desktop/userspace on bootia32 (Or, can it add support for baytrail/cherrytrail user to boot 64 bit haiku with bootia32?).

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I doubt it would fix any “takes too long to boot” problems, and it definitely doesn’t affect 32-bit/64-bit mixed EFI/kernel support at all.

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