Improvements since R1/Alpha 4

Haiku R1 alpha 4 -- Release Date: 2012-11-14 -- Revision: hrevr1alpha4-44702

This page outlines some of the more notable changesets since then. Additions and corrections are encouraged.

Kernel Drivers or Filesystems

• Virtio initial support: block device support
• iso9960, exfat, fat: Corrected time conversion mistakes.
• cdda, fat, iso9660: clear tv_nsecs fields in the stat struct.
• bfs, btrfs, exfat, extfs: Return more than a single dirent at a time in btrfs_read_dir().

Upgrades

• GCC 4.7.3

Misc

• Switch to terminfo instead of termcap
• haiku.image now supports the target x86_64