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
• x2APIC support (opt-in boot option)
• 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