Re: Looking to help

On 3/8/07, Axel Dörfler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.


Maybe I'll go ahead and start taking a look at 1082.  That should be about
as good of an introduction as anything.  I'll have to learn locking sometime
anyway, right?  :)

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.


I'll get started on that and go ahead and browse through the documentation.
Hopefully that will give me at least enough of a base to ask an intelligent
question about the task.  :)

I would've gotten back with you sooner, but I've been trying to get haiku
building on my mac.  Unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it will be an
option.  I was able to get the development tools to build, but it has all
kinds of problems when I try to build haiku.  I have some Linux boxes around
I can use, I was just hoping to use my mac since it's a lot better of a
machine.  Was worth a shot anyway.

Morgan

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