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Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

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309 points LorenDB | 2 comments | 08 Jan 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Santosh83 ◴[08 Jan 25 18:46 UTC] No.42637177[source]▶
Read somewhere that it is relatively easy to adapt NetBSD's drivers into a custom kernel... maybe Serenity folks can go that way? Device drivers are huge obstacle for any fledgling OS.
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mysterydip ◴[08 Jan 25 19:18 UTC] No.42637487[source]▶
> Device drivers are a huge obstacle for any fledgling OS.

I've wondered if new/hobby OSes would fare better by starting out targeting a popular single board computer like a raspberry pi? A mostly fixed set of hardware to make/get drivers for and test your system on.

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[08 Jan 25 19:23 UTC] No.42637523[source]▶
I've also argued in favor of that; I don't actually like Pis personally, but they're a super common, cheap enough, easy to acquire system and that's huge.
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FuriouslyAdrift ◴[08 Jan 25 20:15 UTC] No.42637995[source]▶
Raspberry Pi's are highly proprietary for hardware blobs...
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joshmarinacci ◴[08 Jan 25 20:22 UTC] No.42638061{3}[source]▶
It also documented far better than any other easily accessible hardware. I’d pick the Pi over any other real hardware target.
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1. FuriouslyAdrift ◴[08 Jan 25 20:29 UTC] No.42638134{4}[source]▶
The few devs I know in that space prefer the various Beaglebone SBCs
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2. beng-nl ◴[08 Jan 25 20:44 UTC] No.42638256[source]▶
+1 here. Peak beaglebone DX to me was the beaglebone white. Full Soc documentation, and only a single usb cable to carry power, jtag, and serial.

A gem of a device and hmm maybe I should write some code for one again..