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Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board

by nixcraft on 5/6/23, 6:04 PM with 20 comments

• by johndoe0815 on 5/6/23, 8:01 PM

  Amazing progress, especially for a single-person effort. X512's posts (linked from https://github.com/X547/Haiku-riscv) are well worth a read - can't wait to give it a try. The sources to the VisionFive 2 port are not uploaded so far.

  Haiku already runs great on the HiFive Unmatched board, the VisionFive 2 version now makes it possible to run Haiku on a RISC V machine which sells below $100 (+display, keyboard, mouse, case). I would expect that the effort to port the OS to the Pine64 Star64 board (which uses the same SoC as the VisionFive 2, the JH7110) is relatively small, so there's another option to run Haiku soon.

• by qubex on 5/6/23, 8:04 PM

  As a BeOS main-driver from the mid-1990s, I absolutely adore this.

  BeOS was just a dream to use back in 1997-1999. The performance was absolutely spectacular (by the end I was running it on a dual PIII-450MHz, a very rare high-end configuration at the time) and the vision of a multithreaded OS that targeted multiprocessor (SMP) systems with the slogan “One Processor Per User Is Not Enough!” was truly visionary.

• by snvzz on 5/6/23, 8:33 PM

  There is also some discussion in the VisionFive2 forum @ RVSpace.

  https://forum.rvspace.org/t/progress-on-running-haiku-on-vis...

• by tkngctrl on 5/7/23, 12:36 AM

  BeOS had a feature where you could clone a whole install to a different drive, at that time it was amazing. Instead of backing up and restoring or adding a new mount point, you just cloned your whole OS to the new drive, rebooted, and bam.

• by psychphysic on 5/6/23, 9:09 PM

  Nice! I'm very pleased running my visionfive2 as a gateway to my home network. But that itch to make it so something interesting and not useful is starting again.

  Maybe Haiku OS would be a good for a network bastion?