Hi there!
It's time for the monthly report for January (and half of February as well). This report convers hrev53715-hrev53874 and some real world activities.
Fix was proposed by phoudoin in bug tracker (#15650 (TextSearch: search string is not properly escaped when passing in grep) – Haiku), I just adapt and push it to Gerrit.
The T5120 will be good for native testing, and package compiling, that said I wouldn’t call it powerful… I have a T2000 which is nearly the same machine (same T2 CPU), and always prefer to work on my Ultra45 even though it only has 2 cores they are much faster for interactive use then the T2 which also has anemic FPU performance as well. The T2 is a throughput machine… great server / bad desktop. I’ve been eyeing getting a T4 myself since they are cheaper now to replace my T2000. The T4 has good FPU and single thread performance also.
Note you have to go up to a T4 at least to get out of order execution as well as dual issue… all the previous ones are in order and achieve high IPC by using/abusing mutlithreading. A T4 is probably 10x faster for single thread workloads than a T1 or T2. And probably over 2x as fast as a T3 most of the time.
That should be a good fit for Haiku, right?
The levels of noise, lack of video output and form factor already make this machine a bad desktop system anyway. I think it would still be better than my Ultra60, but yes, this will probably eventually be a CI builder or something.
Anyway, we can’t really complain when we get the hardware for free 
Thanks, I’ll update the report to clarify.
You guys are cooking on gas at the moment!
Glad to hear there’s been some love for emacs/terminal compatability.
very busy months behind… amazing work!
Haiku works better and better…
Thx to all involved!
Actually you should be able to put a video card in there… the caveat is that some graphics cards require x86 instructions in thier vbios. Looks like it only has PCIe so an XVR-100 won’t work like in the Ultra 45. Not sure what cards may work acutally though they do mention the possibility in the manuals.
And no a T2 is not ideal for any interactive use as you’ll see it’s about as fast as a slug… I don’t even like using mine at the command like which is why I said I use my Ultra45 for integrative use. It is plenty fast if you throw a lot of integer threads at it, but not FPU threads so much as it still only has 1 FPU per core (shared between all threads on that core). T1 cpu in my t2000 only has one for the whole chip!
T4 is the first of the T series that I would seriously say it could be acceptable for desktop use like I said roughly 10x faster than a T2 which is especially obvious in singlethreading.
But yeah it should make a great CI builder I’d throw a cheap SATA SSD in there to help it along. (I should probalby donate a few bucks for that 
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Looks like an XVR-300 should work in there, they cost about $100 on ebay in the USA… you also need a DMS-59 to DVI/VGA breakout cable. That said it’s an ancient RV370 GPU…
You can probably get a modern PCIe GPU like a Radeon 550 or 560 to work… but the BIOS won’t set it up for you like on x86 since… since its open firmware and not a supported GPU.I wanted to experiment with this in my T2000 but it was a pain finding a GPU that wuold fit and I ended up breaking a GPU trying to chop off the extra PCIe lanes X.x since I didn’t want to modify the slot.
I’ll see if I can get an RX560 working in my Ultra45… since I have several laying around. I’d be happy to mail you one also if you want to give it a shot.
Great work keep on…
I don’t know what you are trying to say?