Hard Tasks

These are various large projects and other "hard tasks" that need to be completed (in no specific order). This is a great place to store your unicorn wishes.

Haiku WebPositive improvements

• WebKit 2 - Actively being worked on at ​https://github.com/haiku/haikuwebkit/tree/webkit2
• WebExtensions support - requires WebKit2, but otherwise should be a compile option away + some UI work.

Accelerated Hardware Virtualization

Should likely be one of the many accelerated API's supported by qemu...

• bhyve (FreeBSD native hypervisor (as alternative to qemu))
• nvmm (DragonflyBSD & NetBSD virtualization stack) - Looks promising as DragonflyBSD already extracted some of the OS-specific bits in a cleaner API.
• KVM

Full IPv6 Support

• Somewhat implemented, more work needed

zeroconf Network printing Implementation ("AirPrint")

• Requires working mDNS, this should be done but more testing may be needed
• Needs zeroconf (also called bonjour) service discovery, either using mDNSresponder (​https://opensource.apple.com/source/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder-1310.140.1/) Or a costum implementation

VPN Support

• Kernel drivers needed
• Wireguard

Hardware 3d acceleration

• Mesa project
• Creating a DRM compatibility layer
• Enabling DRM hardware access
  • Adding DRM hooks to existing drivers
  • Porting Linux modesetting drivers - Directly or through some reuse of *BSD compatibility layers

App Server multi-monitor support

• Some old drivers (Radeon, Matrox) already support output to multiple displays, but app_server still manages it as a single large screen
• API review needed: fill in the BScreen class and make sure it is used properly
• Keep working on our own driver, or attempt to port Linux ones? (Linux ones are huge, complicated, and not designed for portability)
• Porting a Linux modesetting driver would require major api changes

USB Audio Support

• Improvements around our generic USB audio driver, finishing support of USB audio devices

File Systems

• Finishing BFS resize support ​https://review.haiku-os.org/q/topic:bfsresize

Advanced Power Management

• Support sleep/hibernation