Re: Looking to help

Welcome Morgan,

"Morgan Howe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not a former beos user or anything so noble.  My interest in 
> Haiku
> stems from wanting to get involved in some form of kernel 
> development, and
> Haiku looks like a promising project with a more friendly/encouraging
> community than most.  I have Haiku running in Qemu, and am currently 
> working
> on pulling everything from SVN. (That takes a while. :)  If you have 
> any
> suggestions for ways I could get my feet wet, so to speak, I am eager 
> to
> hear them.  I have followed the thread earlier this month from Jan et 
> al, so
> I know some of the possibilities, I just wanted to make sure you all 
> know
> that whatever task I work on may be slow-going at first.  :)

You may want to have a look at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1082 but 
I'm not sure it's a good candidate, as the locking might be tricky.
To get in touch with the Be/Haiku kernel services, you could also help 
out Kaoutsis with http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1071 ie. writing test 
apps.

One peculiarity of the Be/Haiku kernel is that it mirrors most of the 
actual user API, that is, the functions you're using when doing kernel 
programming are partially POSIX plus the usual Be kernel API 
components. There are only a dozen or so calls that are only available 
in the kernel.

Anyway, if you're not interested in any of the above, or feel 
uncomfortable with it, just tell.

Bye,
   Axel.


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