Time for a speedie new computer for home/business use but would like to kill two birds with one stone and have it work with Haiku. And when I mean work, boot as well as minimum ethernet connects me to Internet and network and sound works. Without any of the main 3, it would be useless for me.
I want it work well enough that I spend time in the Haiku environment and not just for a few minutes so sound and Internet would be important.
The system I am look at is the newer Ivy Bridge based Intel Core i7 3770k 3.9GHz and Maingear makes a nice small ITX cased Potenza I like the looks of. Video card would be either AMD HD 7770 or they have 7850 and 7870. They also offer nVidia options but not sure which will offer best chances of video and sound working for Haiku.
I can build to order so can anyone that knows Haiku tell me if my chances of having Haiku run on this would be and what recommended items I should get to make it happen.
Here is a link to their site:
http://www.maingear.com/custom/desktops/potenza/customize.php
Look at the superstock model at $1299.
Thanks
TJ
Looks pretty sweet! Too bad I just put together a new computer, I love their cases!
I’m concerned about Ivy Bridge as Michael Lotz had to add some code for Sandy Bridge, though maybe the difference between those two is not as much as between Sandy Bridge and the previous chipset.
Going with the AMD is wise given Alexander von Gluck’s work on AMD drivers. Searching on grok the 7770 seems to be in the big list of supported devices (line 293):
http://haiku.it.su.se:8180/source/xref/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/radeon_hd/driver.cpp
Based on this it doesn’t sound like he tested it though:
http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=0a2f127
You may or may not want to be the guinea pig. Of course VESA should always work…
As for sound I’m really not sure if the Realtek ALC898 is supported, though if it exposes a HDA interface, maybe so. It seems to have a data sheet online, so that is hopeful 
Of course that doesn’t mean Haiku supports it, but it makes it easier for a developer to write a driver.
As for the gigabit ethernet, it is listed in one of our drivers:
http://haiku.it.su.se:8180/source/xref/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/ipro1000/dev/e1000/e1000_ich8lan.c
So given all that I guess you can make your choice!
And while it is somewhat technical, clearly OpenGrok is helpful for searching the source for driver information:
http://haiku.it.su.se:8180/source/
[quote=leavengood]Going with the AMD is wise given Alexander von Gluck’s work on AMD drivers. Searching on grok the 7770 seems to be in the big list of supported devices (line 293):
http://haiku.it.su.se:8180/source/xref/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/radeon_hd/driver.cpp[/quote]
I didn’t know the list of supported video cards was hidden in the Haiku source code. That’s just the list I was looking for! 
Glad I could help but clearly we need to expose that somewhere less technical for everyone’s benefit. I’ll mention it to Alexander.