I can understand the reticence of the developers — I’ve done enough bare metal work to know it’s really hard to develop for a new environment. And these projects all have such scant resources.
But the Pi is ubiquitous — so -if- you were going to port to a new non x86 target, it surely makes most sense.
For Haiku and AROS they at least have their OSs running on a common platform. For MorphOS there is little or no affordable PPC hardware supported and so the only option is old PPC macs — even then I can’t, say, run on my ancient 12” G4 laptop because MorphOS doesn’t support nvidia graphics, although I did manage to get it to boot on my even older G4 Cube.
Guess I’ll have to check out the likes of Plan 9 on Pi — I wasn’t aware of this.
I guess if I really want to see Haiku or AROS on Pi, I’d have to actively contribute.
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I can understand the reticence of the developers — I’ve done enough bare metal work to know it’s really hard to develop for a new environment. And these projects all have such scant resources.
But the Pi is ubiquitous — so -if- you were going to port to a new non x86 target, it surely makes most sense.
For Haiku and AROS they at least have their OSs running on a common platform. For MorphOS there is little or no affordable PPC hardware supported and so the only option is old PPC macs — even then I can’t, say, run on my ancient 12” G4 laptop because MorphOS doesn’t support nvidia graphics, although I did manage to get it to boot on my even older G4 Cube.
Guess I’ll have to check out the likes of Plan 9 on Pi — I wasn’t aware of this.
I guess if I really want to see Haiku or AROS on Pi, I’d have to actively contribute.