Haiku OS on raspberry pi

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Will Haiku be available to run on the raspberry pi desktop in the future, if so I’d love to use it.

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Maybe? It doesn’t now. There are a couple forum topics about the progress on arm64 ports for qemu

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I’m not that intelligent what that means

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I believe it means that, no, Haiku does not run on Raspberry Pi hardware but that the idea has been discussed here before and maybe reading those threads will help you understand the issues involved?

This search:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/search?q=raspberry%20order%3Alatest

finds a few discussions that you might find useful.

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Let’s sum up the current situation:

  • The Raspberry Pi uses an ARM CPU (most PCs use x86 instead). Currently Haiku is not compatible with that, and it is not a trivial change. Other drivers will also need to be written specifically for the Raspberry Pi (and for each other machine using an ARM CPU: they tend to be much more diverse than traditional PCs).
  • I don’t think anyone is actively working on it at the moment.
  • I guess it will happen eventually, maybe in a few years, maybe quicker if someone decides to write all the needed code. But that has been the situation for ARM since even before the first Raspberry Pi was released. So, don’t expect too much…
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The question is, is someone willing and capable of finishing the port to arm and also write the necessary drivers for the raspberry pi.

Maybe we could do a crowdfunding to pay someone.

Maybe we could clone x512 :wink:

Seriously, the pi would be a great platform:

relatively cheap, widely available, long time available, quite powerful, relatively open hardware, existing bsd drivers.

I would be willing to donate 10 or maybe 20 Euro per month, but it would need quite a lot of people

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