= 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 support:
    * block devices (supported features: configuration change)
    * SCSI devices (supported features: capacity change)
    * PCI: legacy/MSI/MSI-X interrupts supported
* MSI-X support: activated in the FreeBSD compat layer.
* MSI: activated for AHCI and USB host controller drivers, fixed for some AMD based systems.
* intel_gart: bridge detection is fixed.
* PCI: use pcie mechanism for config space access 
* 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