I’m currently working on ACPI drivers and bus_manager support for Haiku and BeOS R5. I think the bus_manager is in fairly good shape, but I could sure use some help in obtaining information on a wide variety of hardware profiles, and a list of people willing to test certain things. Could this be you?

Check out what my BeOS mail_daemon does!

I also applied a ‘fix’ (haha more like a kludge) for people who, like me, formatted their BFS drives with a block size of 1024. In case you hadn’t noticed, R5 (no idea if this persists in dano / Zeta) will occasionally loose updates to the queries, resulting in [...]

What have I gotten myself into?
I spent the last couple days getting acquainted with the Haiku source tree, build system, and getting it installed into a partition on my dual P3.
My success has been limited.
I can boot Haiku in Safe mode, with SMP disabled. With SMP enabled I die quickly.
I also have to foce the [...]