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I must say, I agree with this, but it's a community member bounty - I'm just the messenger. I write in the regulations for people to consider bounties that aren't too big, and that they may fail. However, they can do as they please. |
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aphex
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I think it's a big project for sure. But having just a few of the drivers needed would probably not be so interesting since the aim is full MacBook support. But nothing says that more than one developer could be working on it, splitting the bounty. Though, there is not much to split at the moment though  |
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frankps
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Well, I have not tried to get MacBook and Mac Mini to boot ZETA from CD, but I have tried that on my MacBook Pro. I know, not the same hardware. The bounty should simply be to get Haiku booted, and drivers that are not Mac specific, like: * Intel GMA 950 graphics processor * Intel PRO 10/100/1000 NIC should be separate bounties. Haiku need better support for the Intel graphic chipsets in general, as far as I know, only the i855 and i865 variants are supported. An updated Intel graphics driver would benefit many laptop users. Regarding the Intel Pro driver, you should rather contact Marcus Overhagen: http://www.bebits.com/app/3862 . No point in developing the driver twice! |
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aphex
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Booting Mac OS X would probably only need S-ATA support. None of the drivers are really Mac-specific, except the hotkeys. Maybe it's good to split the product (as you said) like this: 70-75% of fund * Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter * IDT SigmaTel Audiocard * Hotkeys for Sound and Brightness * iSight (if possible?) 25-30% of fund * Intel GMA 950 graphics processor * Intel PRO 10/100/1000 NIC But still keeping the items inside here, if someone want's to develop everything and also to pinpoint that MacBook support is whats sought after. |
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karlvd
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Email me if you'd like to change the bounty Aphex, it's up to you. |
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umccullough
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I believe ipro1000 driver is already in the repository - and is easily tested with vmware (set to e1000 emulation) - might as well remove this one I think, unless there are different flavors of this chip. |
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karlvd
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I guess you can only really tell for sure if you actually boot Haiku on it first. |
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karlvd
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Please read this update! http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1599 |
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zenja
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Other than a different video chipset, there shouldn't be much differences between a standard MacBook and its Pro brother. I hope that this project allows Haiku to run natively on the MBP. |
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T. J.
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Wondering how this project is moving along. About a month left till the end if the bounty I see. Really want to start testing builds of haiku on my Black MacBook. Parallels & VMWare just are not as satisfying as the prospects of running Haiku on the real hardware. Keep up the good work! I am really looking forward to this. T. J. |
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karl
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I've emailed Chris. I'll try to post an update if I hear from him. |
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chrisjp
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Hey guys! Thanks for the interest. The port is coming along well. I finished up adding support for the internal display in the intel_extreme driver. It works nicely in native mode (1280x800) and I'll be sending along the patches to the mailinglist this week. I updated makebootable to support building to a partition entirely from within OSX, so that was a big help in development. I started working on the ISight driver and got some functionality going in uhci, but it isn't completely functional, since I didn't realize the ehci(usb 2.0 high speed) driver was lacking isochronous transfers so that is something I will have to add in. Right now i'm working on the hda/sigmatel part of the port, and hopefully should have basic sine wave playback going soon. I haven't had a chance to narrow down the keyboard/touchpad usb bug, but I do have some areas where I suspect we maybe having troubles. If any of you have a macbook and are able to test natively (i.e. install to a partition) please let me know. Sorry I haven't been able to update more, I can't login to haikuware from Safari for some reason (I get an unauthorized user message and a crash) but I just installed Firefox, so hopefully I can get a nice how-to going for you guys. Have a good weekend, and I'll post an update sometime before Wednesday. Also, if any of you have a laptop which hasn't been able to get an active display with the intel_extreme driver, please let me know  |
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thenerd
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Hi Chris! Thanks for the update. I'm posting this from Safari on Windows XP so I don't know why it doesn't work for you. Could be MAC OS related I guess... Cheers! |
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karl
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Thanks for the update. I can login from Safari on OS X and FireFox on OS X... By the way, I have a MacBook, a free partition and will test... |
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chrisjp
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Who knows what the problem is Karl, definitely a problem with Safari (I just tried logging in from a application listing and it worked) so who knows I'll try to get the usb problems for the keyboard fixed up this week and send you an image Karl. By the way, what happened to the weekly chats? All the best, Chris |
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karl
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Weird, where were you logging in from? Maybe I can duplicate this... Cool, finish that up when you can and send away! Oh ya, the weekly chats! Doh... hmm, well I'll try to be on tonight in an hour and a half, but yes, we were neglecting our weekly chats  |
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clebin
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> Also, if any of you have a laptop which hasn't been able to get an active display with the intel_extreme driver, please let me know I'm running Haiku natively on a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with GMA 950 graphics. I have to put Haiku into VESA mode at boot or I just get a black screen. I also have Intel HDA sound. I've been so looking forward to proper graphics & sound support. I'll rebuild Haiku as soon as the patches go into SVN and report back. |
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the_webers_inc
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Wow, things are moving right along. Chris, I have an empty partition on my MacBook waiting for Haiku. I would be more than willing to install and test any images that you would/could provide. T. J. |
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aphex
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How is the port coming along? I don't mind if it is not finished I think the deadline was set a bit earlier than necessary, but any status update would be pleasant to hear. |
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MaxOS
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So. Gnash Bounty. Porting Gnash 0.8.2 for Haiku Bounty is on same player as well as prepared plug-in to Firefox'a. Deadline for bounty 9 months. |
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karl
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@aphex, I've contacted chrisjp, but haven't heard back yet  |
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chrisjp
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Oh the nerve  The port is going along slowly. I've run into a big issue with the ehci (USB 2.0) driver. For some reason it is not receiving the interrupts in a timely fashion, and then canceling them (but then it receives them finally during the cancel) It's a very difficult problem to figure out. This is a big problem for us, as the back port on the macbook shares a connection with all of the internal devices (trackpad/keyboard/isight). The iSight (the only usb 2.0 device back there) causes that port to get disabled, along with everything else on board. I'm also getting this error in Parallels fairly often, so I'm afraid this may be a sign of a larger problem. I'm hoping that some of the recent/upcoming patches may help with this, but I'm still plugging away at finding an alternative. Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been plugging along slowly, fairly busy with things. I've also got quite a few bugs fixed in the audio (HDA) driver, but not enough to allow clean audio. I'll keep you guys posted. |
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thenerd
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If you are having problems with anything I'm sure the folks on the development mailing list will give you a hand as best they can. Cheers and thanks for the update. |
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aphex
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Maybe you should change the deadline to something that feels more suitable |
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chrisjp
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Sounds good, I guess the best way to make a 'safe deadline' would be the end of September. But i'm hoping to have it all tidied up by the end of July/August. The usb problems have been a big roadblock, so I'll keep you all updated on my progress. Thanks for your patience, I'm not going anywhere, so just email me if you have any questions I think the video support should be in SVN early next week. |
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koki
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> The usb problems have been a big roadblock... Have you filed a bug report on dev.haiku-os.org for any of the problems that you are seeing? If you have not, you may want to, as that would raise the visibility of the problem among the Haiku devs and the possibility that someone may be able to help out. In the specific case of USB, Michael Lotz may be able to help you out (he's been working quite actively on USB-related stuff recently). |
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karl
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I picked a happy medium between nine months and Chris' suggestion, the end of Sept, 08. I hope the end of the year sounds reasonable. |
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aphex
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In my experience, I have never seen any project to be done before the set deadline. If it's set to December it will most likely not be completed before that date Which is perfectly fine with me, I'd rather see a finished project than a none finished one because of time issues. Although I wonder, chrisjp, do you feel that the bounty sum is satisfactory enough? |
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karl
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@aphex, the sata/ahci bounty was completed a month or so before the deadline. Chrisjp committed some code for the MB's display recently through Axel: http://cia.vc/stats/author/axeld/.message/1adee2 |
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thenerd
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I'm glad that some of Chris' code is making it into the tree. |
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karl
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Last I heard/seen, was that Chris committed some code for bringing display support to the MacBook under Haiku. He then established that he'd need more time to work on the bounty, and it was then extended. |
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thenerd
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yeah I'm guessing it's quite an undertaking so it might turn out to be more than first anticipated. Maybe we should send him an email to see what the progress is? |
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chrisjp
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I thought I posted earlier, but perhaps it didn't go through? Things are going pretty well, I got some good work done on it this week. I'm getting sound out of the speaker (finally) but it's still a bit off with the timings and refilling of the buffer. I'm mostly working on the HDA driver right now, so I'm hoping to get some commits in during the next few weeks. Fear not, I'm still plugging along and things look good for the end of Sept. |
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thenerd
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thanks for the update Chris It's nice to see that things are going well |
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karl
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Haven't heard, but Chris usually answers when someone posts here. |
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